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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2012 Sep 28;46(1):128–138. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.09.003

Table 4.

Detailed Information for Ontologies in Table 3: Column 1 shows the acronym of each ontology; Column 2 shows the full names; Column 3 shows their URIs and Column 4 shows the versions of the ontologies we used to evaluate

Acronym Name Source URI Version
AA Amino Acid Ontology http://www.coode.org/ontologies/amino-acid/2006/05/18/amino-acid.owl 2.0
BFO Basic Formal Ontology http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1 1.1
BIRNLex BIRNLex (Biomedical Informatics Research Network controlled terminology) http://bioontology.org/projects-/ontologies/birnlex 1.3.1
BRO Biomedical Resource Ontology http://bioontology.org/ontologies/BiomedicalResourceOntology.owl 2.7.1
BioPax Biological Pathways Exchange Level 3 http://www.biopax.org/release/biopaxlevel3.owl 0.94
NPO Nano Particle Ontology http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/npo 1.0
OBI The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations http://purl.obolibrary.org/-obo/obi.owl 1.0
SAO Subcellular Anatomy Ontology http://ccdb.ucsd.edu/SAO/1.2 1.2