This is the project page for RO, the OBO Relations Ontology

Summary

RO is a collection of relations intended primarily for standardization across ontologies in the OBO Foundry and wider OBO library. It incorporates ROCore upper-level relations such as part of as well as biology-specific relationship types such as develops from.

Documentation

• RO Guide
• Main RO site

Download

This is the main PURL for the ontology:

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

For all download products, see the RO OBO page

Browse

Currently the optimal way to browse RO is to use Protege and inspect ro.owl

See the list of relations on OntoBee -- note that sometimes OntoBee fails to display the full hierarchy

How to cite

Please cite RO by its GitHub URL https://github.com/oborel/obo-relations or its Zenodo DOI, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.32899 .

Mailing list

• http://groups.google.com/group/obo-relations

Requesting new relations

Use the GitHub issue tracker and/or the obo-relations mailing list.

How to contribute to RO and join the RO working group

Please see our page on Contributing to RO.