The Population and Community Ontology (PCO) describes material entities, qualities, and processes related to collections of interacting organisms such as populations and communities. It is taxon neutral, and can be used for any species, including humans. The classes in the PCO are useful for describing evolutionary processes, organismal interactions, and ecological experiments. Practical applications of the PCO include community health care, plant pathology, behavioral studies, sociology, and ecology.

Prefix

pco

Preferred Prefix

PCO

Version

2021-05-03

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Ramona Walls   0000-0001-8815-0078   ramonawalls

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Population and Community Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000021   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Population and Community Ontology should match this regular expression:
^pco:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

pco:0000021

Depends On (8)

BFO CARO ENVO GO IAO NCBITaxon PATO RO

Appears In (1)

ENVO

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

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE pco:0000021 is used to demonstrate the provides available for pco. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.