bfo.md

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ontology_detail	bfo	Basic Formal Ontology	title label url BioPortal Browser BioPortal http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BFO?p=classes	email github label orcid [email protected] phismith Barry Smith 0000-0003-1384-116X	https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/12972134?v=3&s=200	The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.	upper	http://ifomis.org/bfo/	1	label url CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bfo-discuss	BFO	id bfo.owl id bfo.obo	https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO	https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/issues	description type user BFO is imported by multiple OBO ontologies to standardize upper level structure owl_import http://obofoundry.org	active

BFO grows out of a philosophical orientation which overlaps with that of DOLCE and SUMO. Unlike these, however, it is narrowly focused on the task of providing a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research, as for example in biomedicine within the framework of the OBO Foundry. Thus BFO does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the special sciences domains. BFO is the upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.

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