URI*
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl
Contact*
Obi Maintainers (info@emmc.eu)
Object creation date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
Submission date
June 14, 2026
Deprecated
false See more...
Description*
An integrated ontology for the description of biological and clinical investigations., An ontology for representing biomedical investigations, including study designs, the collection and preparation of the targets of investigation, assays, instrumentation and reagents used, as well as the data generated and the types of analysis performed on the data to reach conclusions, and their documentation. See more...
Contributor
Advisors for this project come from the IFOMIS group, Saarbruecken and from the Co-ODE group in Manchester
Creator
Christian Bolling
Daniel Rubin
Holger Stenzhorn
James A. Overton
Jeffrey Grethe
Jennifer Fostel
Jessica Turner
Kevin Clancy
Larisa Soldatova
Liju Fan
Luisa Montecchi
Matthew Brush
Matthew Pocock
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Richard Scheuermann
Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Bjoern Peters
Chris Mungall
Lawrence Hunter
Philippe Rocca-Serra
Chris Stoeckert
Dawn Field
Dirk Derom
Eric Deutsch
Frank Gibson
Helen C. Causton
Jay Greenbaum
Jie Zheng
Joe White
John Westbrook
Melissa Haendel
Mervi Heiskanen
Norman Morrison
Phillip Lord
Pierre Grenon
Richard Bruskiewich
Robert Stevens
Ryan R. Brinkman
Stefan Wiemann
Tanya Gray
Trish Whetzel
Yongqun He
Alan Ruttenberg
Elisabetta Manduchi
Helen Parkinson
James Malone
Melanie Courtot
Monnie McGee
Allyson Lister
Barry Smith
Bill Bug
Carlo Torniai
Chris Taylor
Cristian Cocos
Daniel Schober
Gilberto Fragoso
Subject
An ontology for the annotation of biomedical and functional genomics experiments. See more...
License
Creative Commons License
Representation language*
OWL See more...
Homepage
http://obi-ontology.org/
http://obi-ontology.org/
Object modification date property
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
Notes
Please cite the OBI consortium http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi where traditional citation is called for. However it is adequate that individual terms be attributed simply by use of the identifying PURL for the term, in projects that refer to them. See more...
Root of obsolete branch
http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
Access URL
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl
Creation date*
June 14, 2026
Status*
production See more...
URI Lookup Endpoint
https://dev.matportal.org/search?ontologies=OBI&require_exact_match=true&q=
search?ontologies=OBI&require_exact_match=true&q=
Version information
2026-05-08 See more...
Version IRI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi/2026-05-08/obi.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi/2026-05-08/obi.owl

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