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layout ontology_detail
id bfo
title Basic Formal Ontology
browsers
title label url
BioPortal Browser
BioPortal
contact
email github label orcid
phismith@buffalo.edu
phismith
Barry Smith
0000-0003-1384-116X
depicted_by https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/12972134?v=3&s=200
description The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.
domain upper
homepage http://ifomis.org/bfo/
in_foundry_order 1
license
label url
CC BY 4.0
mailing_list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bfo-discuss
preferredPrefix BFO
products
id
bfo.owl
id
bfo.obo
repository https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO
tracker https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/issues
usages
description type user
BFO is imported by multiple OBO ontologies to standardize upper level structure
owl_import
activity_status active

BFO grows out of a philosophical orientation which overlaps with that of DOLCE and SUMO. Unlike these, however, it is narrowly focused on the task of providing a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research, as for example in biomedicine within the framework of the OBO Foundry. Thus BFO does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the special sciences domains. BFO is the upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.
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