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Population and Community Ontology

Abbreviation: PCO

General Information

Population and Community Ontology (PCO) is an ontology standard for describing the collective and interacting species of any taxa such as humans or plants. PCO has useful application in community health care, plant pathology, behavioral studies, sociology, and ecology. The PCO is compliant with the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and is designed to be compatible with other OBO Foundry ontologies.

Homepage https://github.com/PopulationAndCommunityOntology/pco

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 2012

Taxonomic range

All

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: PCO; Population and Community Ontology; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.vq28qp; Last edited: Feb. 4, 2020, 10:58 a.m.; Last accessed: Sep 25 2021 2:42 p.m.

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Record updated: Feb. 4, 2020, 10:57 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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		Before: The Population and Community Ontology (PCO) models material entities, qualities, and processes related to collections of interacting organisms such as populations and communities. It is taxon neutral, and can be used for any species, including humans. The classes in the PCO are useful for describing evolutionary processes, organismal interactions, and ecological experiments. Practical applications of the PCO include community health care, plant pathology, behavioral studies, sociology, and ecology. The PCO is complient with the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and is designed to be compatible with other OBO Foundry ontologies. 
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Support

General

forum	GitHub Issue Tracker
Mailing List	popcomm-ontology@googlegroups.com
online documentation	Presentation

Additional Information

Contact

Ramona Walls ORCID

External Links

Bioportal	http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PCO
OBO	http://obofoundry.org/ontology/pco.html

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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Data Access

AgroPortal: Browse / Download

http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/PCO

Publications

Meeting report: advancing practical applications of biodiversity ontologies

Ramona L Walls, Robert Guralnick, John Deck, Adam Buntzman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Neil Davies, Michael W Denslow, Rachel E Gallery, J Jacob Parnell, David Osumi-Sutherland, Robert J Robbins, Philippe Rocca-Serra, John Wieczorek, and Jie Zheng
Stand Genomic Sci 2014

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PCO Ontology Display

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Disclaimer: This widget assumes the availability of the ontology resources in the NCBO BioPortal.

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This record is maintained by rwalls ORCID

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University of Arizona, United States (University)

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