This is the project page for RO, the new OBO Relations Ontology. This ontology replaces OBO_REL.

Summary

RO is a collection of relations intended primarily for standardization across ontologies in the OBO Foundry and wider OBO library. It incorporates core upper-level relations such as part of from BFO.

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Download

Use the following URIs to download this ontology:

• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro.owl
• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro.obo

Note that the source ontology is OWL - the OBO version may have less axioms

List of Relations

See the list of relations on OntoBee

Mail List

• main: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/obo-relations
• mirror: http://groups.google.com/group/obo-relations

Examples of usage

See UsageExamples

Requesting new relations

Use tracker on this website and/or the obo-relations mail list

Shortcut Relations

RO includes a number of macro or shortcut relations. E.g

• capable of
• has postynaptic terminal in

For more information, see ShortcutRelations

RO replaces OBO_REL

The predecessor of RO was OBO_REL. Many of the relations in OBO_REL have been ceded to BFO. See DifferencesWithOldRO