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.
See the site Menu for more info, or the ROGuide
Download
This is the main PURL for the ontology:
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 .
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Guide
See ROGuide
Examples of usage
See UsageExamples
Requesting new relations
Use the github issue tracker and/or the obo-relations mail list.
Shortcut Relations
RO includes a number of macro or shortcut relations. E.g
For more information, see Shortcut Relations
Modularization
RO combines multiple relations from different biological sub-domains into one ontology. Sometimes these relations are very specialized and of limited use outside that domain. For more on extracting specific modules, see:
See RO Modules.
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
Coordination with BFO
For details on how RO coordinates with BFO, See ROAndBFO .