The Environment Ontology is a resource and research target for the semantically controlled description of environmental entities. The ontology's initial aim was the representation of the biomes, environmental features, and environmental materials pertinent to genomic and microbiome-related investigations.

Prefix

envo

Preferred Prefix

ENVO

Version

2021-05-14

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Pier Luigi Buttigieg   0000-0002-4366-3088   pbuttigieg

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Environment Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7,8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

09200010   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Environment Ontology should match this regular expression:
^envo:\d{7,8}$

Example CURIE

envo:09200010

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource includes the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. The actual part that gets prefixed before the local unique identifier regex, otherwise known as the banana, is ENVO:. Therefore, you might see local unique identifiers written out as CURIEs.

Publications

• 2016 The environment ontology in 2016: bridging domains with increased scope, semantic density, and interoperation.
• 2016 EXTRACT: interactive extraction of environment metadata and term suggestion for metagenomic sample annotation.
• 2015 Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment.
• 2013 The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities.

Depends On (7)

CHEBI FOODON GO NCBITaxon PCO RO UBERON

Appears In (2)

FOODON PCO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for envo with 2 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE envo:09200010 is used to demonstrate the provides available for envo. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.