Uberon

Uberon is a multi-species anatomy ontology covering metazoans (animals). It's structure is well-aligned with the development hierarchy in GO.

Uses in GO

There are two primary uses of Uberon in GO:

• Logical definitions (cross-products) - see Extensions/x-metazoan-anatomy
• Annotation Extension (col 16 annotation)

Connections with other AOs

Mouse

MGI c16 annotations include use of MA and EMAP.

EMAP:

Note that EMAP is staged - each term represents a specific structure at a specific stage. This information is retained in the axioms linking back to Uberon

• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/bridge/uberon-bridge-to-emap.owl
• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/bridge/uberon-bridge-to-emap.obo

MA:

• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/bridge/uberon-bridge-to-ma.owl
• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/bridge/uberon-bridge-to-ma.obo

Combination of Uberon, MA and EMAP plus bridging axioms:

• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/bridge/collected-mouse-with-stages.obo

References

Mungall, C. J., Torniai, C., Gkoutos, G. V., Lewis, S. E., and Haendel, M. A. (2012) Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology Genome Biology 13, R5. http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/1/R5

See Also

• http://uberon.org - homepage
• Extensions/x-metazoan-anatomy