The document discusses the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry, which is a collection of reference ontologies in biology and biomedicine that follow a set of principles to ensure logical structure and interoperability. It outlines the motivation and history of OBO Foundry, describes how the ontologies are organized, and provides examples of ontologies in the Foundry and their scopes. The goal of OBO Foundry is to facilitate sharing, integration and analysis of biological data through standardized ontologies.
20. Acknowledgements NCBO/Berkeley Nicole Washington Mark Gibson John Day-Richter Suzanna Lewis NCBO/Stanford Nigam Shah Daniel Rubin Archana Verbakam Lynn Murphy Michael J Montague Mark Musen Ontologies Amelia Ireland Jane Lomax Jen Clark Midori Harris David Hill Karen Eilbeck Seth Carbon Judith Blake & GO NCBO/Buffalo Fabian Neuhaus Werner Ceusters Louis Goldberg Barry Smith NCBO/Eugene Melissa Haendel Monte Westerfield NCBO/Cambridge Michael Ashburner George Gkoutos NCBO/Victoria Chris Callender Margaret-Anne Storey NCBO/Mayo James Buntrock Chris Chute NIH Peter Good Carol Bean David Sutherland Oliver Hofmann Sue Rhee Johnathan Bard Lindsay Cowell Erik Segerdell Alan Rector Cynthia Smith Jannan Eppig Rex Chisholm Pascale Gaudet Paula de Matos Rafael Alcantra Kirill Degtyarenko Pankaj Jaiswal Onard Mejino Cornelius Rosse William Bug Alan Ruttenberg Trish Whetzel Jennifer Fostel & OBI Consortium NCBO/UCSF Simona Carini Ida Sim Nation Heart, Lung and Blood Institute