An ontology for respresenting spatial concepts, anatomical axes, gradients, regions, planes, sides and surfaces. These concepts can be used at multiple biological scales and in a diversity of taxa, including plants, animals and fungi. The BSPO is used to provide a source of anatomical location descriptors for logically defining anatomical entity classes in anatomy ontologies.

Prefix

bspo

Preferred Prefix

BSPO

Version

2022-06-28

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000029   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Biological Spatial Ontology should match this regular expression:
^bspo:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

bspo:0000029

Publications

2014 Nose to tail, roots to shoots: spatial descriptors for phenotypic diversity in the Biological Spatial Ontology.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for bspo with 2 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE bspo:0000029 is used to demonstrate the provides available for bspo. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.