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)

The logical definitions can be used in conjunction with annotation extensions to provide automatic "deepening" of annotations, and automatic verification.

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.owl

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