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Units Ontology

Abbreviation: UO

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General Information

The Units Ontology (UO) models metrical units for use in conjunction with PATO. Units are basic scientific tools that render meaning to numerical data. Their standardization and formalization caters for the report, exchange, process, reproducibility and integration of quantitative measurements. The Units Ontology is an ontology currently being used for the standardized description of units of measurements.

Homepage https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/unit-ontology

Countries that developed this resource Saudi Arabia , United Kingdom , United States

Created in 2011

Taxonomic range

Not applicable

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: UO; Units Ontology; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.mjnypw; Last edited: Aug. 5, 2019, 2:05 p.m.; Last accessed: Apr 06 2020 6:16 a.m.

This record is maintained by gkoutos ORCID

Record updated: Aug. 5, 2019, 2:05 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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In Collections

Cell Migration Standardisation Organisation

Support

General

forum	GitHub Issue Tracker
online documentation	Google Code documentation (obsolete)

Additional Information

Contact

George Gkoutos ORCID

External Links

Bioportal	http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/UO
OBO	http://obofoundry.org/ontology/uo.html

Tools

ISA Tools

http://isa-tools.org

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 Release

Download (OWL)

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uo.owl

Publications

The Units Ontology: a tool for integrating units of measurement in science.

Gkoutos GV,Schofield PN,Hoehndorf R
Database (Oxford) 2012

View Paper (PubMed) View Publication

UO Ontology Display

View in BioPortal.

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

View in OBO Foundry.

Related Standards

Reporting Guidelines

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Terminology Artifacts

Models and Formats

Investigation Study Assay Tabular

Identifier Schemas

No identifier schema standards defined

Metrics

No metrics standards defined

Implementing Databases (3)

ChEMBL
ChEMBL is an open large-scale bioactivity database containing information largely manually extracted from the medicinal chemistry literature. Information regarding the compounds tested (including their structures), the biological or physicochemical assays performed on these and the targets of these assays are recorded in a structured form, allowing users to address a broad range of drug discovery questions.

Brassica Information Portal
The Brassica Information Portal is a web repository for population and trait scoring information related to the Brassica breeding community. It provides information about quantitative trait loci and links curated Brassica phenotype experimental data with genotype information stored in external data sources. Advanced data submission capabilities and APIs enable users to store and publish their own study results in BIP. The repository can be easily browsed thanks to a set of user-friendly query interfaces.

MetaSRA
MetaSRA is a database of normalized SRA human sample-specific metadata following a schema inspired by the metadata organization of the ENCODE project. This schema involves mapping samples to terms in biomedical ontologies, labeling each sample with a sample-type category, and extracting real-valued properties.

Implementing Policies

Credit

Record Maintainer

This record is maintained by gkoutos ORCID

Funds

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)
NIH Common Fund, USA (Government body)
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)
European Commission FP7 (Government body)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)

Maintains

National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO), Stanford, CA, USA (Research institute)
Bio-Ontology Research Group, KAUST, Saudi Arabia (Lab)
Department of Computer Science, University of Aberystwyth (University)

Grant Number(s)

R01 HG004838-02 (National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA)
248502 (European Commission FP7)
U54-HG004028 (NIH Common Fund, USA)

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