Background

Source ontologies may be imported in their entirety or included selectively by importing terms and the terms required to support the required terms.

Ontologies Integrated into the Integrated Semantic Framework

The ISF ontology leverages the following ontologies in a unified, semantic structure:

• VIVO – http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core
• eagle-i Resource Ontology (ERO) – https://open.med.harvard.edu/wiki/display/eaglei/Ontology
• Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) – http://www.ifomis.org/bfo
• Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) – http://bibliographic-ontology.org/
• Cell Ontology (CL) – http://cellontology.org/?q=download
• Event Ontology – http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
• Friend of a Friend (FOAF) – http://www.foaf-project.org/
• Gene Ontology (GO) – http://geneontology.sourceforge.net/#code
• Geopolitical.owl, from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
• Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) – https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/
• Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) – http://obi.sourceforge.net/ontologyInformation/
• Ontology of Clinical Research (OCRe) – http://code.google.com/p/ontology-of-clinical-research/
• Reagent Ontology (ReO) – http://code.google.com/p/reagent-ontology/
• Relations Ontology (RO) – http://obofoundry.org/ro/
• Software Ontology (SWO) – http://theswo.sourceforge.net/
• Sequence Ontology (SO) – http://www.sequenceontology.org/
• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) – http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
• Uberon (Uber anatomy ontology) – http://obo.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/obo/uberon/releases/
• vCard – http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/