Users

Below you will find an alphabetical list of ontologies and institutions/groups using BFO.

Ontologies

• ACGT Master Ontology (ACGT MO)
• Additive Manufacturing Ontology (AMO)
• Adolescent Depression Ontology (ADO)
• African Wildlife Ontology (AWO)
• Agronomic Linked Data (AgroLD)
• Algorithm-Implementation-Execution Ontology Design Pattern
• Animals in Context Ontology (ACO)
• Autism-DSM-ADI-R Ontology (ADAR)
• Alzheimer Disease Ontology (ADO)
• Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)
• AFO Foundational Ontology
• Actionable Intelligence Retrieval System (AIRS)
• Antimicrobial-Microorganism Ontology
• Apollo Structured Vocabulary (Apollo-SV)
• Bacterial Clinical Infectious Diseases Ontology (BCIDO)
• Behavior Perspective Model (BPM)
• Bank Ontology
• Battle Management Ontology (BMO)
• Behavior Change Intervention Ontology (BCIO)
• Beta Cell Genomics Application Ontology (BCGO)
• BioAssay Ontology
• Bioinformatics Web Service Ontology (OBIWS) (see also here)
• Biological Collections Ontology (BCO)
• Biomedical Ethics Ontology
• Biomedical Grid Terminology (BiomedGT, retired)
• Biomimetic Ontology
• BioTop: a biomedical top-domain ontology
  • BioTopLite2 (See also BioTopLite2 to BFO bridge)
• BIRNLex: controlled terminology for annotation of BIRN data sources
• Blood Ontology (BLO)
• Body Fluids Ontology (BFLO)
• Bone Dysplasia Ontology (BDO) (see also here)
• Cancer Cell Ontology (OncoCL)
• Cancer Chemoprevention Ontology (CanCo)
• Cardiovascular Disease Ontology (CVDO) (Winner of FOIS 2014 Ontology Competition)
• Cell Behavior Ontology (CBO)
• Cell Culture Ontology (CCONT)
• Cell Cycle Ontology
• Cell Expression, Localization, Development and Anatomy Ontology (CELDA)
• Cell Line Ontology (CLO)
• Cell Ontology: designed as a structured controlled vocabulary for cell types
• Cellular Microscopy Phenotype Ontology (CMPO)
• Chemical Analysis Ontology (CAO)
• Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI)
• Chemical Information Ontology (CHEMINF)
• Chemical Methods Ontology (CHMO)
• CHRONIOUS Ontology Suite
• Cigarette Smoke Exposure Ontology (CSEO)
• Clinical Data Integration Model (CDMO)
• Clinical Narrative Temporal Relation Ontology (CNTRO)
• Clinical Trial Protocol Ontology (CTP-O)
• Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) Analysis Ontology (CAO)
• Cognition-Guided Surgery (CGS) Ontology
• Cognitive Paradigm Ontology (COGPO)
• Cognitive Process Ontology (CPO)
• Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO): anatomical structures in all organisms
• Common Core Ontologies (CCO)
• Common Core Cyber Ontology (C3O)
• Communication Standards Ontology (CSO)
• Comparative Data Analysis Ontology (CDAO)
• Computational Neuroscience Ontology (CNO)
• Computer Aided Engineering Modeling Language (CAEML) Ontology
• Computer-Based Patient Record Ontology (CPRO)
• Conceptual Model Ontology (CMO)
• Core Data Integration Model (CDIM)
• Coriell Cell Line Ontology
• CPR Ontology for the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Computer-Based Patient Record Ontology
• Data Model for Representing Biographical Information for Prosopography (Bio-CRM)
• Decision Ontology
• Diabetes mellitus Diagnosis Ontology (DDO)
• Diabetes Mellitus Treatment Ontology (DMTO)
• Digital Objects in Philosophy Ontology (DOPHO)
• Document Act Ontology (D-Acts)
• Drug Interaction Ontology (DIO)
• Drug Ontology (DrOn)
• Drug-drug Interaction Evidence Ontology (DIDEO)
• Drug-drug Interaction Ontology (DINTO)
• Drug Repurposing Ontology (DRO)
• Eagle-I Research Resource Ontology (ERO)
• Electrocardiography Ontology (ECG)
• Eligibility Criteria Ontology (EC-O)
• Email Ontology
• Emotion Ontology (EMO): an ontology to describe affective phenomena
• ENanoMapper (ENM)
• Engineering-to-BioMimetic Ontology (E2BMO)
• Environment Ontology
• Epidemiology Ontology (EPO)
• Epilepsy and Seizure Ontology (EPSO)
• Event-Based Functional Behavior Ontology (EFBO)
• European Materials Modeling Ontology (EMMO)
• Event-Based Ontology for Historical Description (EOHD)
• Evolution Ontology (EO)
• Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO)
• (EXperimental ACTions) Biomedical Protocol Ontology (EXACT2)
• Exposé: an ontology for data mining experiments)
• eXtended Formal Ontology (XFO)
• FASTO Ontology (incorporates BFO, FHIR, CPG,and SSN)
• Fission Yeast Phenotype Ontology (FYPO)
• Flower-Visiting Domain Ontology (FV), Known Flower-Visiting Group Domain Ontology (KFG), Flower-Visiting Behavior Application Ontology (FVB) and Observation-Date Application Ontology (OBD)
• Food-Energy-Water Systems Ontology (FEWsONT)
• Flybase Drosophila Anatomy Ontology (DAO)
• Flybase Drosophila Phenotype Ontology (FYPO)
• Feedback Intervention Ontology (FIO)
• Food Ontology (FoodOn)
• Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA): See also (here)
• Framework for Semantic Workflow Composition in the Geology Domain
• Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Ontology (GIEO)
• General Information Model (GIM)
• Gene Ontology (GO)
• Gene Regulation Ontology (GRO)
• Genomic Epidemiology Ontology (GenEpiO)
• Genomic Feature and Variation Ontology (GFVO)
• Geographical Entity Ontology (GEO)
• Global Electronic Health Record Ontology (G-EHR-O)
• Gestalt: Federated Access to Cyber Observables for Detection of Targeted Attack
• Health Data Ontology Trunk (HDOT)
• Hemocomponents and Hemoderivatives Ontology (HEMONTO)
• Host Pathogen Interactions Ontology (HPO)
• Human Disease Ontology (DOID)
• Human Activity and Infrastructure Foundry (HAIF)
• Human Experience Realist Ontology (HERO)
• Human Interaction Network Ontology (HINO)
• Human Physiology Simulation Ontology (HuPSON) (see also here)
• Infectious Disease Ontology
• Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)
• Information Security Domain (ISD) ontology
• Informed Consent Ontology (ICO)
• Innovative Capabilities of Additive Manufacturing (ICAM) Ontology
• Integrated Framework for Additively Manufactured Products (IFAMP) ontology
• Interaction Network Ontology (INO)
• International Classification of Diseases Ontology (ICDO)
• Interdisciplinary Prostate Ontology Project (IPOP)
• International Center for Food Ontology, Operability, Data and Semantics (IC-FOODS)
  • uc_Eating: an ontology for the characterization of eating, drinking and otherwise consuming foods
  • uc_FoodDrugInteractionOntology: an ontology for the characterization of interactions between foods and drugs
  • uc_Milk: an ontology for the characterization of mammalian milks
  • uc_Processing: an ontology for the characterization of processing methods and the products they engender
  • uc_Sense: an ontology for the characterization of sensory perception, qualities, and attributes
• Intracranial Aneurysm (ICA) Ontology
• Knowledge Base Of Biomedicine (KaBOB)
• Knowledge Object Reference Ontology (KORO)
• Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures
• Lipid Ontology
• Literary Theme Ontology (LTO)
• Machine Learning Schema (ML-Schema) ontology
• Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Restriction Ontology (MRO)
• Malaria Ontology (IDOMAL)
• Manufacturing Service Description Language (MSDL) ontology
• Manufacturing Supply Chain Ontology (MSCO)
• Medication Adherence Behavior Ontology (MAB-Ontology)
• Mental Disease Ontology (MFO-MD)
• Mental Functioning Ontology (MF)
• Microbiology Ontology (MicrO)
• Minimum Information Model for Patient Safety (MIMPS)
• miRNAO: an Ontology Unfolding the Domain of microRNAs
• Middle Layer Ontology for Clinical Care (MLOCC)
• Military Ontology
• Military Scenario Ontology (MSO)
• MIRO and IRbase: IT Tools for the Epidemiological Monitoring of Insecticide Resistance in Mosquito Disease Vectors
• Mission and Means Framework (MMF) Ontology
• Modal Relation Ontology (MRO)
• Modular Environmental Modeling Ontology (MEMOn)
• Model for Clinical Information (MCI)
• Mouse Pathology Ontology (MPATH)
• Name Reaction Ontology (RXNO)
• Nanoparticle Ontology (NPO): Ontology for Cancer Nanotechnology Research
• Neomark Oral Cancer Ontology (NEOMARK4)
• NeuroPsychological Testing Ontology (NPT)
• Neuroscience Information Framework (see also here)
  • Neuroscience Information Framework Cell Ontology (NIFCELL)
  • Neuroscience Information Framework Dysfunction Ontology (NIFDYS)
  • Neuroscience Information Framework Standard Ontology (NIFSTD): a collection of OWL modules covering distinct domains of biomedical reality
• Neural Electromagnetic Ontologies (NEMO): Ontology-based Tools for Representation and Integration of Event-related Brain Potentials
• Nanoparticles Impact on Human Cell morphology Ontology (NIHCO)
• Next-Generation Biobanking Ontology (NGBO)
• Next Generation Sequencing Ontology (NGSONTO)
• Non-Coding RNA Ontology (NCRO)
• NMR-Instrument Component of Metabolomics Investigations Ontology
• Ocular Disease Ontology (ODO)
• OncoCL-KB: Knowledgebase for Integration of Clinical and Molecular Cancer Data
• OBR Scolio (scoliosis) ontology
• OntoAlign++: A Combined Strategy for Improving Ontologies Alignment
• OntoForInfoScience
• Ontologies for Representing Surgical Procedure Models (OntoSPM)
• Ontologized Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing (OMIABIS)
• Ontology for Adverse Events (OAE)
• Ontology for Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Ontology for Biobanking (OBIB)
• Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)
• Ontology of Card Sleights
• Ontology of Chinese Medicine for Rheumatism (OCMR)
• Ontology of Card Sleights
• Ontology for Computable Eligibility Criteria - Hepatitis C Virus (OCEC-HCV)
• Ontology for Dengue Fever (IDODEN)
• Ontology for Documentation of Variable/Data Source Selection (ODVDS)
• Ontology for Drug Discovery Investigations (DDI)
• Ontology for Energy Investigations (OEI)
• Ontology of Electronics (OOE)
• Ontology for Functionally Graded Materials (OFGM)
• Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS)
• Ontology of Cardiovascular Drug Adverse Events (OCVDAE)
• Ontology of Genes and Genomes (OGG)
• Ontology for Genes and Genomes - Mouse (OGG-MM)
• Ontology of Genetic Disease Investigations (OGDI)
• Ontology for Genetic Interval (OGI)
• Ontology of Genetic Susceptibility Factor (OGSF)
• Ontology for Guiding Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing
• Ontology for Laparoscopic Surgeries (LapOntoSPM)
• Ontology of Microbial Phenotypes (OMP)
• Ontology for MIcroRNA Target Prediction (OMIT) (here)
• Ontology for Newborn Screening and Translational Research (ONSTR)
• Ontology for Next Generation Sequencing Experiments (NGS Ontology)
• OBDMR: An Ontology-Based Data Model for Railways
• Ontology Based Clinical Decision Support System for Geriatrics
• Ontology-Based Operational Emergency Response (POLARISC)
• Ontology for Pain and Related Disability, Mental Health and Quality of Life (OPMQoL)
• Ontology for Periodontitis (PERIO)
• Ontology of Arthropod Circulatory Systems (OArCS)
• Ontology of Clinical Research (OCRe)
• Ontology for Nutritional Studies (ONS)
• Ontology for Parasite LifeCycle (OPL)
• Ontology for Thoracentesis
• Ontology of Biological and Clinical Statistics (OBCS)
• Ontology of Cancer Related Socialecological Variables (OCRSEV)
• Ontology for Cancer research variables (OCRV)
• Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)
• Ontology of Datatypes (OntoDT) (see also here)
• Ontology of Experimental Variables and Values (OOEVV)
• Ontology for Information Science (OntoforInforScience)
• Ontology of Medical Microbiology (OntoMic)
• Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities (OMRSE)
• Ontology of Social Participation (OPS)
• Ontology for Stem Cell Investigations (OSCI)
• Ontology of Systems Engineering
• Ontology of Vaccine Adverse Events (OVAE)
• Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA)
• Ontology-Based eXtensible Data Model (OBX)
• Ontology-Driven Information System (ODIS)/Ontology-Driven Scenario Generator (ODSG)
• Operational Environment Ontology (OEO)
• Oral Health and Disease Ontology (OHD)
• Parasite Experiment Ontology (PEO)
• Part-Focused Manufacturing Process Ontology (PMPO)
• Patient Safetry Categorial Structure (PS-CAST)
• Petrochemical Ontology
• PGxO Pharmacogenomics Ontology
• Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PaTO): qualities of biomedical entities
• Physics-Based Simulation Ontology (PSO-Physics and PSO-Sim)
• Plant Experimental Assay Ontology (PEAO)
• Plant Ontology (PO)
• Plastic Rock Deformation (PRD) ontology
• Pneumonia Ontology
• Ponte Ontology Platform (PONTE)
• POLARISC Emergency Response System Ontology
• Population and Community Ontology (PCO)
• Population Health Record (PopHR)
• Porifera Ontology (PORO)
• Pre-Eclampsia Ontology (PEO)
• PreOptique Platform for Integrated Pre-surgery Reports
• Prescription of Drugs Ontology (PRDO)
• Product Life Cycle Ontology for Additive Manufacturing
• Product Service System (PSS) Ontology
• Process and Observation Ontology (PO2)
• Proper Name Ontology (PNO)
• PROSPECT-IDR: Personalised Prediction of Infectious Disease Risk
• Protein-Ligand Interaction Ontology (PLIO)
• Protein Ontology (PRO): protein types and modifications classified on the basis of evolutionary relationships
• Provenir ontology for provenance modeling
• Public Safety and Emergency Management (PS/EM) Communications Ontology
• QROWD urban traffic and mobility ontology
• Quality of Service (QoS) Ontology
• Relations Ontology (RO)
• Reliability Assessment for Assembly Stations (RAAS) Ontology
• RNA Ontology (RnaO): RNA features, interactions and motifs
• Rock Plastic Deformation (RPD) ontology
• ROMAIN industrial maintenance ontology
• Role Ontology (ROLEO)
• Saliva Ontology (SALO)
• Schistosomiasis Process Ontology (IDOSCHISTO)
• Scientific Evidence and Provenance Information Ontology (SEPIO)
• Semantic Electronic Health Record (SEHR) Model from Linked2Safety (see also here and here)
• Senselab Ontology with applications to NeuronDB and BrainPharm
• Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO)
• Semantic LAminated Composites Knowledge management System (SLACKS)
• Sentinel: Platform for Semantic Enrichment of Social Media Streams
• Sequence Ontology (SO): features and properties of nucleic sequences
• Situation Awareness Ontology (SAO)
• SMART Protocols: SeMAntic RepresenTation for Experimental Protocols
• Sketch Map Ontology
• Skin Physiology Ontology (SPO)
• Sleep Domain Ontology (SDO) (see also here)
• SNOMED CT (SCT) Standard Ontology
• Social Psychology Ontology (SPO)
• Software, Disabilities and Competences Ontology (SODIC)
• Software Ontology (SWO)
• Spatial Graph Adapter (SGA) Ontology Design Pattern
• Spatiotemporal Ontology for the Administrative Units of Switzerland (SONADUS)
• Special Nuclear Materials Detection Ontology (SNM-DO)
• Statistics Ontology (STATO)
• STATO-LMM Linear Mixed Model Ontology
• Subcellular Anatomy Ontology (SAO) of NCMIR
• Suggested Ontology for Pharmacogenomics (SO-Pharm)
• Surface Water Ontology (SWO)
• Survey Ontology
• Taxonomy for Rehabilitation of Knee Conditions (TRAK)
• Time Event Ontology (TEO)
• Toxic Process Ontology (TXPO)
• Trade-Space Analysis Tool for Constellations (TAT-C) ontology
• Translational Medicine Ontology (TMO)
• The Trope Ontology
• Tumour-Node-Metastasis Ontology (TNM-O)
• (Microbial) Typing Ontology (TypOn)
• United Nations SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Ontology Framework
• United Nations System Document Ontology (ONTO-UNDO)
• Universal Core Semantic Layer
• UMass Engineering Core Ontologies
• Vaccination Informed Consent Ontology (VICO)
• Volcanism Ontology (VO)
• Vaccine Ontology (VO)
• Visualized Emotion Ontology (VEO)
• Vital Sign Ontology (VSO)
• VIVO Ontology
• Volcanism Ontology (VO)
• Xenopus Anatomy Ontology (XAO)
• yOWL: ontology-driven knowledge base for yeast biologists

Institutions, Groups and Projects

• Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York
• Allotrope Foundation: Rethinking Scientific Data
• AstraZeneca - Clinical Information Science (see also here)
• Autodesk
• Bentley Software, Inc.
• Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-Source Projects (BBOP)
• Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Lab at Seoul National University (SNU BiKE)
• Brain Operation Database (BODB)
• Center for e-Design
• CTSAconnect
• CUBRC
• Darwin Core (DwC) (see also here)
• DOQS: Data-Oriented Quality Solutions
• DSpace at NTNUA
• Dumontier Lab
• eagle-i Research Resource Ontology
• Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
• Elsevier Smart Content Strategy
• eNanoMapper
• EuPath Ontology
• Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT)
• Good Ontology Design (GoodOD)
• HIGHFLEET
• Influenza Research Database (IRD)
• Institute for Defense Analysis
• INRIA Lorraine Research Unit
• Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
• Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Sociomedical Informatics
• L3 Data Tactics Corporation (see also here)
• Language and Computing
  Bought by Nuance
• libryo
• Medical University Graz - Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation
• National Center for Multi-Source Information Fusion
• Ontology Research Group at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences
• Ontology, Logic and Technology Unit
• Qualitative Spatiotemporal Reasoning Unit
• Referent Tracking Unit
• SAIC
• Thermo Fisher Scientific
• TRADOC Operational Environment Center
• OntoCAT
• OntoCOG
• OntoMaton
• openEHR
• Open Access Journals Integrated service System Project (GoOA)
• Open PHACTS
• OSTHUS
• Praxis: EMR research on interoperability and query of clinical records
• REMINE
• Saitama University - Faculty of Liberal Arts (see also here)
• Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
• Science Commons - Neurocommons
• Securboration
• Skeletome
• SMART Protocols
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)
• University of Arkansas, Biomedical Informatics, Medical Center, Little Rock
• University of Augsburg - Computer Science - Software Methodologies for Distributed Systems
• University of South Alabama - School of Computing - South Biomedical Informatics (SBI) Research Group (see also here)
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (see also here)
• University of Washington - Structural Informatics Group (SIG)
• Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR)
• VIVO: An interdisciplinary national network enabling collaboration and discovery between scientists across all disciplines
  (see also here)
• Volley: AI-powered learning hub