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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <!-- The above 3 meta tags *must* come first in the head; any other head content must come *after* these tags --> <title>OBI | Home</title> <!-- Bootstrap --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous"> <!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js for IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries --> <!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// --> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js"></script> <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script> <![endif]--> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/obi.css"> </head> <body> <header style="width:200px; float: left;padding-left:15px; position:fixed"> <a href="/"> <h1 align="right">OBI</h1></a> <hr size="1" style="border-top:3px solid #eee" /> <p align="right"> <a href="/term-guidelines">Term Guidelines</a><br> <a href="/projects">Projects</a><br> <a href="/media">Media</a><br> <a href="/docs">Documentation</a><br> <a href="/2022-Workshop">2022 Workshop</a><br> </p> </header> <div style="min-width: 500px; max-width:750px; margin-left: 230px;margin-right:30px"> <h1><div class="jumbotron"> <h1>Ontology for Biomedical Investigations</h1> <p class="lead">Community Standard for Scientific Data Integration</p> <p> <a class="btn btn-md btn-success" href="http://www.ontobee.org/ontology/OBI" role="button">Browse OBI</a> <a class="btn btn-md btn-success" href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl" role="button">Download OBI</a> <a class="btn btn-md btn-success" href="https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi" role="button">View on Github</a> </p> </div> </h1> <div style="padding-top:30px"> <p>The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) helps you communicate clearly about scientific investigations by defining more than 2500 terms for assays, devices, objectives, and more.</p> <p>It’s easy to use with many other <a href="http://obofoundry.org">Open Biomedical Ontologies</a>, including the <a href="http://geneontology.org/">Gene Ontology</a>, <a href="http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro/pro.shtml">Protein Ontology</a>, <a href="http://www.plantontology.org/">Plant Ontology</a>, <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/">ChEBI</a>, and <a href="http://obofoundry.org">many more</a>.</p> <h2 id="what-is-an-ontology">What is an Ontology?</h2> <p>An ontology is a system of carefully defined terminology, connected by logical relationships, and designed for both humans and computers to use. OBI is about scientific investigations, so OBI contains general terms such as ‘assay’ and specific terms such as ‘genotyping by high throughput sequencing assay’. Every term has a unique identifier, standard metadata, and logical definitions that connect it to other terms in OBI and the wider OBO community.</p> <p>By using OBI terms when you collect your data, you benefit from the careful definitions, and can use the logical network to enrich search and analysis. By using OBI terms when you share your data, you make it easy for others to understand your work, and integrate it with their own datasets that use OBI and OBO terminology.</p> <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2> <p>The <a href="https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi/wiki">OBI Wiki</a> includes documentation on the use and development of OBI. Like OBI, the wiki is under development and we encourage contributions.</p> <h2 id="request-a-term">Request a Term</h2> <p>Please see our <a href="/page/OBI_term_guidelines">term guidelines</a> for information on how to request a new term, or request changes to an existing term.</p> <h2 id="report-a-problem">Report a Problem</h2> <p>Please use our GitHub issue tracker to report a problem with OBI: <a href="https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi/issues">https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi/issues</a></p> <h2 id="cite-obi">Cite OBI</h2> <p>Please cite <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27128319">The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations</a>, PLoS One. 2016 Apr 29;11(4):e0154556. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154556. eCollection 2016.</p> <h2 id="contact-us">Contact Us</h2> <ul> <li>OBI users mailing list <a href="mailto:obi-users@googlegroups.com">obi-users@googlegroups.com</a> on <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/obi-users">Google Groups</a>.</li> <li>OBI developers mailing list <a href="mailto:obi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">obi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a> (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/obi/lists/obi-devel">subscription form</a>)</li> <li>issue tracker: <a href="https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi/issues">https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi/issues</a></li> <li>weekly conference call, Mondays at 9:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 noon Eastern <ul> <li>Zoom web conference <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82952846229?pwd=UXkwZ3RmU1VZUEM3bDlNS1RsSzNzdz09">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82952846229?pwd=UXkwZ3RmU1VZUEM3bDlNS1RsSzNzdz09</a></li> <li>by phone: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll), Meeting ID: 829 5284 6229, Passcode: 535959 <a href="https://zoom.us/u/MQm7aCi0">International numbers available</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eEutJAG56gncTsWf2sAqHa4a9pQAuCbhsg_kmbF78tw/edit#heading=h.5bzhi4qntq5l">weekly agenda Google Doc</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <br style="clear: both"> <footer class="footer"> <p>© 2019 OBI</p> </footer> </body> </html>