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Foundational Model of Anatomy

Abbreviation: FMA

General Information

The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) is an evolving computer-based knowledge source for biomedical informatics; it is concerned with the representation of classes or types and relationships necessary for the symbolic representation of the phenotypic structure of the human body in a form that is understandable to humans and is also navigable, parseable and interpretable by machine-based systems. Specifically, the FMA is a domain ontology that represents a coherent body of explicit declarative knowledge about human anatomy. Its ontological framework can be applied and extended to all other species

Homepage http://si.washington.edu/projects/fma

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 1995

Taxonomic range

Homo sapiens

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: FMA; Foundational Model of Anatomy; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.x56jsy; Last edited: July 5, 2019, 5:10 p.m.; Last accessed: Sep 20 2021 10:11 p.m.

Record updated: June 25, 2019, 5 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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In Collections

ISO/CD 20691 Collection - DRAFT

Systems Medicine

Support

General

support email	fma@sig.biostr.washington.edu
Mailing List	FMA Developers
Mailing List	FMA Announcements
Mailing List	FMA Content
online documentation	Comparison with other anatomy sources
online documentation	Purpose of the FMA
online documentation	http://si.washington.edu/projects/fma
online documentation	Issue Tracker
online documentation	Summary of Resources

Additional Information

Contact

Onard Mejino

External Links

Bioportal	http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/FMA
OBO	http://obofoundry.org/ontology/fma.html

Tools

No tools defined

Schemas

No XSD schemas defined

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Data Versioning

FMA Update log

http://si.washington.edu/content/fma-version-update-log

Data Access

Download	http://sig.biostr.washington.edu/share/downloads/fma/release/latest/fm ...
FMA Browser	http://purl.org/sig/fma/browser

Publications

A reference ontology for biomedical informatics: the Foundational Model of Anatomy.

Rosse C,Mejino JL Jr
J Biomed Inform 2004

View Paper (PubMed) View Publication

From frames to OWL2: Converting the Foundational Model of Anatomy.

Detwiler LT,Mejino JLV,Brinkley JF
Artif Intell Med 2016

View Paper (PubMed) View Publication

FMA Ontology Display

View in BioPortal.

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

View in OBO Foundry.

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Terminology Artifacts

Models and Formats

No syntax standards defined

Identifier Schemas

No identifier schema standards defined

Metrics

No metrics standards defined

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Funds

U.S. National Library of Medicine (Government body)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)

Maintains

Structural Informatics Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (University)

Grant Number(s)

DE24417 (National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA)
LM 03528 (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
LM 06822 (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

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