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With the DataPLANT biology ontology (DPBO), DataPLANT provides an intermediate ontology that acts as a broker and bridge between the individual researcher/domain experts and main ontology providers. DPBO enables easy and agile collection of missing vocabulary as well as relationships between terms for (meta)data annotation using DataPLANT’s Swate tool.

The Reagent Ontology (ReO) adheres to OBO Foundry principles (obofoundry.org) to model the domain of biomedical research reagents, considered broadly to include materials applied “chemically” in scientific techniques to facilitate generation of data and research materials. ReO is a modular ontology that re-uses existing ontologies to facilitate cross-domain interoperability. It consists of reagents and their properties, linking diverse biological and experimental entities to which they are related. ReO supports community use cases by providing a flexible, extensible, and deeply integrated framework that can be adapted and extended with more specific modeling to meet application needs.

Methods and tools for (pre-)processing of metabolomics datasets (i.e. peak matrices), including filtering, normalisation, missing value imputation, scaling, and signal drift and batch effect correction methods. Filtering methods are based on: the fraction of missing values (across samples or features); Relative Standard Deviation (RSD) calculated from the Quality Control (QC) samples; the blank samples. Normalisation methods include Probabilistic Quotient Normalisation (PQN) and normalisation to total signal intensity. A unified user interface for several commonly used missing value imputation algorithms is also provided. Supported methods are: k-nearest neighbours (knn), random forests (rf), Bayesian PCA missing value estimator (bpca), mean or median value of the given feature and a constant small value. The generalised logarithm (glog) transformation algorithm is available to stabilise the variance across low and high intensity mass spectral features. Finally, this package provides an implementation of the Quality Control-Robust Spline Correction (QCRSC) algorithm for signal drift and batch effect correction of mass spectrometry-based datasets.

Access the ArrayExpress Collection at EMBL-EBI Biostudies and build Bioconductor data structures: ExpressionSet, AffyBatch, NChannelSet.

A toolset for deciphering and managing biological sequences.

Independent hypothesis weighting (IHW) is a multiple testing procedure that increases power compared to the method of Benjamini and Hochberg by assigning data-driven weights to each hypothesis. The input to IHW is a two-column table of p-values and covariates. The covariate can be any continuous-valued or categorical variable that is thought to be informative on the statistical properties of each hypothesis test, while it is independent of the p-value under the null hypothesis.

Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business.

An ontology that represents the basic knowledge of physical, chemical and functional characteristics of nanotechnology as used in cancer diagnosis and therapy.

The Extensible Observation Ontology (OBOE) is a formal ontology for capturing the semantics of scientific observation and measurement. The ontology supports researchers to add detailed semantic annotations to scientific data, thereby clarifying the inherent meaning of scientific observations.

Vitro is a full stack framework for building semantic web applications. It is not domain specific.

The Annotation Ontology specification is currently used as input for the activities of the http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/'>W3C Open Annotation Community Group that works towards a common, RDF-based, specification for annotating digital resources. The Group effort starts by working towards a reconciliation of two proposals that have emerged over the past two years: the http://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/'>Annotation Ontology and the http://www.openannotation.org/spec/beta/'>Open Annotation Model. Initially, editors of these proposals will closely collaborate to devise a common draft specification that addresses requirements and use cases that were identified in the course of their respective efforts. The goal is to make this draft available for public feedback and experimentation in the second quarter of 2012. The final deliverable of the Open Annotation Community Group will be a specification, published under an appropriate open license, that is informed by the existing proposals, the common draft specification, and the community feedback. [from homepage]

An ontology based on PRO for describing the contributions that may be made, and the roles that may be held by a person with respect to a journal article or other publication (e.g. the role of article guarantor or illustrator).

NFDI-MatWerk aims to establish a digital infrastructure for Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), fostering improved data sharing and collaboration. This repository provides comprehensive documentation for NFDI MatWerk Ontology (MWO) v3.0.0, a foundational framework designed to structure research data and enhance interoperability within the MSE community. To ensure compliance with top-level ontology standards, MWO v3.0.0 is aligned with the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and incorporates the modular approach of the NFDIcore mid-level ontology, enriching metadata through standardized classes and properties. The mwo addresses key aspects of MSE research data, including the NFDI-MatWerk community structure, covering task areas, infrastructure use cases, projects, researchers, and organizations. It also describes essential NFDI resources, such as software, workflows, ontologies, publications, datasets, metadata schemas, instruments, facilities, and educational materials. Additionally, mwo represents NFDI-MatWerk services, academic events, courses, and international collaborations. As the foundation for the MSE Knowledge Graph, mwo facilitates efficient data integration and retrieval, promoting collaboration and knowledge representation across MSE domains. This digital transformation enhances data discoverability, reusability, and accelerates scientific exchange, innovation, and discoveries by optimizing research data management and accessibility. (from repository)

Identifiers in the GTN correspond to training materials in various formats (markdown, slides, video). The users can apply learned concepts directly within the framework via galaxy workflows.

An Apache-based persistent URL (PURL) service

The Context and Measurement Ontology (COMO) contains ontological terms to describe the context for various types of experimental data and measurements. It is useful in its current state for several different environmental microbiology projects. This ontology is used in multiple CORAL (Contextual Ontology-based Repository Analysis Library) deployments.

The Common Core Ontologies (CCO) comprise twelve ontologies that are designed to represent and integrate taxonomies of generic classes and relations across all domains of interest. CCO is a mid-level extension of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), an upper-level ontology framework widely used to structure and integrate ontologies in the biomedical domain (Arp, et al., 2015). BFO aims to represent the most generic categories of entity and the most generic types of relations that hold between them, by defining a small number of classes and relations. CCO then extends from BFO in the sense that every class in CCO is asserted to be a subclass of some class in BFO, and that CCO adopts the generic relations defined in BFO (e.g., has_part) (Smith and Grenon, 2004). Accordingly, CCO classes and relations are heavily constrained by the BFO framework, from which it inherits much of its basic semantic relationships.

MIMIC-III is a dataset comprising health-related data associated with over 40,000 patients who stayed in critical care units of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between 2001 and 2012

Use this database to browse the CMECS classification and to get definitions for individual CMECS Units. This database contains the units that were published in the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard.

An ontology that enables characterization of the nature or type of citations, both factually and rhetorically.

An ontology encoding the Common Information Model (CIM) schema

The Chromosome Ontology is an automatically derived ontology of chromosomes and chromosome parts.

An ontology developed as part of the Chemical Analysis Metadata Project (ChAMP) as a resource to semantically annotate standards developed using the ChAMP platform. (source: CAO ontology)

This is a code repository for the SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics CALIPHO group neXtProt project, which is a comprehensive human-centric discovery platform, that offers a integration of and navigation through protein-related data. CALIPHO is an interdisciplinary team which aims to use a variety of methodologies to help uncover the function of uncharacterized human proteins.

SO is a collaborative ontology project for the definition of sequence features used in biological sequence annotation. It is part of the Open Biomedical Ontologies library.

Upper-Level ontology for Biology and Medicine. Compatible with BFO, DOLCE, and the UMLS Semantic Network

BioTools is a registry of databases and software with tools, services, and workflows for biological and biomedical research.

Bioschemas aims to improve the Findability on the Web of life sciences resources such as datasets, software, and training materials. It does this by encouraging people in the life sciences to use Schema.org markup in their websites so that they are indexable by search engines and other services. Bioschemas encourages the consistent use of markup to ease the consumption of the contained markup across many sites. This structured information then makes it easier to discover, collate, and analyse distributed resources. [from BioSchemas.org]

The Bioregistry is integrative meta-registry of biological databases, ontologies, and nomenclatures that is backed by an open database.

Biofactoid is a web-based system that empowers authors to capture and share machine-readable summaries of molecular-level interactions described in their publications.

BioCompute is shorthand for the IEEE 2791-2020 standard for Bioinformatics Analyses Generated by High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) to facilitate communication. This pipeline documentation approach has been adopted by a few FDA centers. The goal is to ease the communication burdens between research centers, organizations, and industries. This web portal allows users to build a BioCompute Objects through the interface in a human and machine readable format.

The Bibframe vocabulary consists of RDF classes and properties used for the description of items cataloged principally by libraries, but may also be used to describe items cataloged by museums and archives. Classes include the three core classes - Work, Instance, and Item - in addition to many more classes to support description. Properties describe characteristics of the resource being described as well as relationships among resources. For example: one Work might be a "translation of" another Work; an Instance may be an "instance of" a particular Bibframe Work. Other properties describe attributes of Works and Instances. For example: the Bibframe property "subject" expresses an important attribute of a Work (what the Work is about), and the property "extent" (e.g. number of pages) expresses an attribute of an Instance.

The Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) is a database of Knowledge Organization Systems and KOS related registries. The main goal of BARTOC is to list as many Knowledge Organization Systems as possible at one place in order to achieve greater visibility, highlight their features, make them searchable and comparable, and foster knowledge sharing. BARTOC includes any kind of KOS from any subject area, in any language, any publication format, and any form of accessibility. BARTOC’s search interface is available in 20 European languages and provides two search options: Basic Search by keywords, and Advanced Search by taxonomy terms. A circle of editors has gathered around BARTOC from all across Europe and BARTOC has been approved by the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).

The AOPO provides classes and relationships for the semantic representation of the Adverse Outcome Pathway framework.

A vocabulary for describing semantic assets, defined as highly reusable metadata (e.g. XML1 schemata, generic data models) and reference data (e.g. code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, vocabularies).

An ontology to support disciplinary annotation of Arctic Data Center datasets.

An ontology that enables the metadata properties of the DataCite Metadata Schema Specification (i.e., a list of metadata properties for the accurate and consistent identification of a resource for citation and retrieval purposes) to be described in RDF.

A data model for managing information about chemical entities, ranging from atoms through molecules to complex mixtures.