OBO Foundry

OBO Foundry
Focus	Improvent of biomedical ontologies
Members	27
Key people	Suzanna Lewis, Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner
Website	obofoundry.org

The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry is a group of people who build and maintain ontologies related to the life sciences.^[1] The OBO Foundry establishes a set of principles for ontology development for creating a suite of interoperable reference ontologies in the biomedical domain. Currently, there are more than a hundred ontologies that follow the OBO Foundry principles.

The OBO Foundry effort makes it easier to integrate biomedical results and carry out analysis in bioinformatics. It does so by offering a structured reference for terms of different research fields and their interconnections (ex: a phenotype in a mouse model and its related phenotype in zebrafish).^[2]

^ Smith B, Ashburner M, Rosse C, Bard J, Bug W, Ceusters W, et al. (November 2007). "The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (11): 1251–5. doi:10.1038/nbt1346. PMC 2814061. PMID 17989687.
^ Mungall, Christopher J; Gkoutos, Georgios V; Smith, Cynthia L; Haendel, Melissa A; Lewis, Suzanna E; Ashburner, Michael (2010). "Integrating phenotype ontologies across multiple species". Genome Biology. 11 (1): R2. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-1-r2. ISSN 1465-6906. PMC 2847714. PMID 20064205.

[:0-1] Smith B, Ashburner M, Rosse C, Bard J, Bug W, Ceusters W, et al. (November 2007). "The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (11): 1251–5. doi:10.1038/nbt1346. PMC 2814061. PMID 17989687.

[2] Mungall, Christopher J; Gkoutos, Georgios V; Smith, Cynthia L; Haendel, Melissa A; Lewis, Suzanna E; Ashburner, Michael (2010). "Integrating phenotype ontologies across multiple species". Genome Biology. 11 (1): R2. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-1-r2. ISSN 1465-6906. PMC 2847714. PMID 20064205.

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