The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.

Prefix
bfo
Preferred Prefix
BFO
Version
2019-08-26
License
CC-BY-4.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL
Contact
Barry Smith   0000-0003-1384-116X   phismith
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Basic Formal Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000001   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Basic Formal Ontology should match this regular expression:
^bfo:\d{7}$

Example CURIE
bfo:0000001
Ontology
Appears In (2)
FOODON PCO
Metaregistry Basic Formal Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for bfo with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL aberowl BFO
AgroPortal agroportal BFO
BioContext biocontext BFO
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal BFO
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.wcpd6f
Gene Ontology Registry go BFO
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry bfo
Ontology Lookup Service Ontology Lookup Service logo ols bfo
OntoBee ontobee BFO
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE bfo:0000001 is used to demonstrate the provides available for bfo. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Basic Formal Ontology bfo http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/bfo:0000001