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. 2017 Apr 6;19(5):1008–1021. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbx035

Table 1.

Landscape of phenotype ontologies

Domain Ontology # Classes Used by
Human and biomedical DO [36] 11 663 DisGeNet [37]
HPO [38] 15 381 HPO Database [39] and GWAS Central [40]
International Classification of Disease version 10, Clinical Modification (ICD10CM) [41] 92 168 Various EHR systems
ICD9CM [42] 22 533 Various EHR systems
Medical Subject Headings Thesaurus [43] 261 990 Comparative Toxicogenomic Database [44]
UMLS [43] SIDER [45] and DisGeNet [37]
NCI Thesaurus [46] 118 941 NCI, NIH multiple projects
Ontology of Adverse Events [47] 5514
Orphanet Rare Disease Ontology [48] 13 105 Orphanet [49]
Read Codes Clinical Terminology version 3 [50] 140 065 UK General Practice
SNOMED-CT [51] 324 129 Various EHR systems
Animal model organism Dictyostelium Phenotype Ontology [52] 1058 DictyBase [52]
DPO [53] 506 FlyBase [54]
MPATH [13] 889 PathBase [55], RGD [56] and MGI [14]
MPO [22] 30 316 MGI [14], RGD [56]
Worm Phenotype Ontology (WBPhenotype) [57] 2435 WormBase [58]
Plants and fungi Ascomycete Phenotype Ontology 619 Saccharomyces Genome Database [59]
Flora Phenotype Ontology [60] 28 430 African Plants Database [61]
FYPO [29] 9870 PomBase [62]
TO [63] 1433 iPlant Collaborative Databases [64] and Planteome [65]
Solanaceae PATO [30, 31] 397 Sol Genomics Network [66]
Thesaurus Of Plant traits [67] 950 TRY Database [68]
Cell Cell Microscopical Phenotype Ontology [69] 813 Cellular Phenotype Database [70]
Ontology for Microbial Phenotypes (OMP) [71] 1120 Microbialphenotypesȯrg [72]