Welcome to the home of the FlyBase miscellaneous ontologies

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The FlyBase controlled vocabulary (FBcv) incorporates a number of controlled vocabularies and ontologies developed and used by FlyBase, including the Drosophila phenotype ontology (DPO). The DPO is arguably the most important of the component ontologies and was previously maintained in this repository, but has been officially released as a separate project since 25 July 2019. The DPO can be accessed here.

Downloads:

The latest version of the ontology is available in various forms at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/fbcv/<filename>

Dated releases can be found at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/fbcv/releases/<YYYY-MM-DD>/<filename>

Descriptions of the different versions (artefacts) are available here. Files are provided in owl, obo and json format.

Base files

• fbcv-base.owl
• fbcv-base.obo
• fbcv-base.json

Full files

• fbcv-full.owl
• fbcv-full.obo
• fbcv-full.json

Non-classified files

• fbcv-non-classified.owl
• fbcv-non-classified.obo
• fbcv-non-classified.json

Simple files

• fbcv-simple.owl
• fbcv-simple.obo
• fbcv-simple.json

Publications

1. Osumi-Sutherland D., Marygold S. J., Millburn G. H., McQuilton P. A., Ponting. L., Stefancsik R., Falls K., Brown N. H., Gkoutos G. V. (2013) The Drosophila phenotype ontology. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 4(30).

Funding

Development of the FlyBase controlled vocabulary has been funded by a series of grants to FlyBase from the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.