Open Biological & Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry

The mission of the Open Biological & Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry is to support community members who are developing and publishing ontologies in the biomedical domain. The OBO Foundry is open, inclusive and collaborative. The contributors are those biological researchers and ontology developers who have agreed to work together on an evolving set of design principles that can foster interoperability of ontologies, and ensure a gradual improvement of quality and formal rigor in ontologies, in ways designed to meet the increasing needs of data and information integration in the biomedical domain. You can use the NCBO BioPortal to access and share ontologies that are actively used in biomedical communities.