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. 2018 Feb 6;9:8. doi: 10.1186/s13326-018-0176-y

Table 1.

List of reused ontologies

Full name Acronym Ver. Authors Location Main purpose
Diabetes diagnosis ontology DDO 2015 Shaker El-Sappagh https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/DDO A standardized ontology that collects all of the classes, properties, and axioms of diabetes diagnosis process.
Basic formal ontology BFO 2015 Barry Smith https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BFO A genuine top-level ontology used to support the creation of domain ontologies with unified semantics.
Ontology of general medical science OGMS 2017 Richard Scheuermann https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/OGMS An upper level ontology to uniformly formulate the diseases diagnosis and treatment semantics under the semantics of the BFO ontology.
The Drug-Drug Interactions Ontology DINTO 2015 Maria Herrero http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/DINTO Describes and categorizes all drug-drug interactions and all the possible mechanisms that can lead to them.
Relation ontology RO 2017 Chris Mungall https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/RELO A standardized collection of relations or object properties.
Semantic Mining of Activity, Social, and Health data SMASH 2015 Dejing Dou, Hao Wang https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/SMASHPHYSICAL Describes the semantic features of healthcare data and social networks.
Phenotypic Quality Ontology PATO 2014 George Gkoutos https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PATO Models the semantics of phenotypes.
OntoFood ontology FO 2015 Vikas http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/OF Ontology and SWRL rules of the nutrition of diabetes patients.
Systematized Nomenclature of medicine-clinical terms SNOMED CT 2017 SNOMED International https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/OF The most comprehensive standard medical terminology.
RxNorm RxNorm 2017 NLM https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/RXNORM A normalized naming system for generic, branded, and standard drug names, ingredients, and other properties.
OWL Time TIME 2017 Chris Little Simon Cox http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/TIME Ontology of temporal concepts for describing the temporal properties of resources.