onto-med/cop

Core Ontology of Phenotyping

Core Ontology of Phenotyping (COP)

Introduction

The Core Ontology of Phenotyping (COP) defines core entities and their relationships that are relevant for modelling phenotypic knowledge and developing phenotyping software.

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Contribution and Development

Please see our Contributing Guide.

References

The ontology was initially named the Core Ontology of Phenotypes. However, its scope was later expanded, prompting a name change. You may encounter references using the older name.

Uciteli A, Beger C, Kirsten T, Meineke FA, Herre H. Ontological representation, classification and data-driven computing of phenotypes. J Biomed Semant 2020;11:15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-020-00230-0.

Uciteli A, Beger C, Kirsten T, Meineke FA, Herre H. Ontological Modelling and Reasoning of Phenotypes. Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode V: The Styrian Autumn of Ontology, Graz: 2019. [PDF]

cop's Issues

COP4TOP

Comply with OBOLibrary

OBO sets out some principles to which COP must be adapted: https://obofoundry.org/principles/fp-000-summary.html

Especially IRIs must be updated to something like: http://purl.obolibrary/obo/COP_0000001 (see https://github.com/jamesaoverton/obo-tutorial/blob/master/docs/names.md).