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DCAT-AP is a DCAT profile for sharing information about Catalogues containing Datasets and Data Services descriptions in Europe, under maintenance by the SEMIC action, Interoperable Europe. This Application Profile provides a minimal common basis within Europe to share Datasets and Data Services cross-border and cross-domain. [from homepage]

MITE (Minimum Information about a Tailoring Enzyme) is a data repository and associated data standard designed to capture the reaction- and substrate-specificities of tailoring enzymes. Community-driven and fully expert-reviewed, it represents enzymatic reactions using reaction SMARTS and links to established resources such as UniProt, NCBI GenPept, Rhea, and MIBiG. MITE serves as a knowledgebase for enzyme and pathway annotation, in silico biosynthesis, and machine learning applications.

The gEAR portal is a website for visualization and analysis of multi-omic data both in public and private domains.

METPO (Microbial Ecophysiological Trait and Phenotype Ontology) provides standardized terms for describing microbial phenotypes, growth characteristics, and culture conditions. It includes classes for growth media, temperature tolerances, pH tolerances, and relationships like "grows in" and "does not grow in".

A controlled vocbualry of higher education resource types

This ontology is based on the SSN Ontology by the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group (SSN-XG), together with considerations from the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group.

Ontologies that aim to provide semantic specifications for units of measure, quantity kind, dimensions and data types.

GO Rules are a way of documenting the set of filters and reports that should apply to GAF annotation data. Some rules are expressed as SPARQL on a triplestore, some are code in the GAF parsing software, ontobio.

SSSOM is a Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings, providing - a TSV-based representation for ontology term mappings - a comprehensive set of standard metadata elements to describe mappings and - a standard translation between the TSV and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Most metadata elements, such as "sssom:mapping_justification" are defined in the sssom namespace.

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Identifiers in the GTN correspond to training materials in various formats (markdown, slides, video). The users can apply learned concepts directly within the framework via galaxy workflows.

A data model for managing information about chemical entities, ranging from atoms through molecules to complex mixtures.

Bioschemas aims to improve the Findability on the Web of life sciences resources such as datasets, software, and training materials. It does this by encouraging people in the life sciences to use Schema.org markup in their websites so that they are indexable by search engines and other services. Bioschemas encourages the consistent use of markup to ease the consumption of the contained markup across many sites. This structured information then makes it easier to discover, collate, and analyse distributed resources. [from BioSchemas.org]

The Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) is a database of Knowledge Organization Systems and KOS related registries. The main goal of BARTOC is to list as many Knowledge Organization Systems as possible at one place in order to achieve greater visibility, highlight their features, make them searchable and comparable, and foster knowledge sharing. BARTOC includes any kind of KOS from any subject area, in any language, any publication format, and any form of accessibility. BARTOC’s search interface is available in 20 European languages and provides two search options: Basic Search by keywords, and Advanced Search by taxonomy terms. A circle of editors has gathered around BARTOC from all across Europe and BARTOC has been approved by the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).

The Bioregistry is integrative meta-registry of biological databases, ontologies, and nomenclatures that is backed by an open database.

PomBase manages gene and phenotype data related to Fission Yeast. FYECO contains experimental conditions relevant to fission yeast biology. The FYECO namespace shows up in data ingests from PomBase.

A representation of variables appearing in models in the environmental research space.

A vocabulary for describing semantic assets, defined as highly reusable metadata (e.g. XML1 schemata, generic data models) and reference data (e.g. code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, vocabularies).

The Chromosome Ontology is an automatically derived ontology of chromosomes and chromosome parts.

The Common Core Ontologies (CCO) comprise twelve ontologies that are designed to represent and integrate taxonomies of generic classes and relations across all domains of interest. CCO is a mid-level extension of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), an upper-level ontology framework widely used to structure and integrate ontologies in the biomedical domain (Arp, et al., 2015). BFO aims to represent the most generic categories of entity and the most generic types of relations that hold between them, by defining a small number of classes and relations. CCO then extends from BFO in the sense that every class in CCO is asserted to be a subclass of some class in BFO, and that CCO adopts the generic relations defined in BFO (e.g., has_part) (Smith and Grenon, 2004). Accordingly, CCO classes and relations are heavily constrained by the BFO framework, from which it inherits much of its basic semantic relationships.

The Simplified Upper Level Ontology (SULO) is ontology with a minimal set of classes and relations to guide the development of a personal health knowledge graph. [from homepage]

BioTools is a registry of databases and software with tools, services, and workflows for biological and biomedical research.

An ontology that enables the metadata properties of the DataCite Metadata Schema Specification (i.e., a list of metadata properties for the accurate and consistent identification of a resource for citation and retrieval purposes) to be described in RDF.

Vitro is a full stack framework for building semantic web applications. It is not domain specific.

NFDI-MatWerk aims to establish a digital infrastructure for Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), fostering improved data sharing and collaboration. This repository provides comprehensive documentation for NFDI MatWerk Ontology (MWO) v3.0.0, a foundational framework designed to structure research data and enhance interoperability within the MSE community. To ensure compliance with top-level ontology standards, MWO v3.0.0 is aligned with the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and incorporates the modular approach of the NFDIcore mid-level ontology, enriching metadata through standardized classes and properties. The mwo addresses key aspects of MSE research data, including the NFDI-MatWerk community structure, covering task areas, infrastructure use cases, projects, researchers, and organizations. It also describes essential NFDI resources, such as software, workflows, ontologies, publications, datasets, metadata schemas, instruments, facilities, and educational materials. Additionally, mwo represents NFDI-MatWerk services, academic events, courses, and international collaborations. As the foundation for the MSE Knowledge Graph, mwo facilitates efficient data integration and retrieval, promoting collaboration and knowledge representation across MSE domains. This digital transformation enhances data discoverability, reusability, and accelerates scientific exchange, innovation, and discoveries by optimizing research data management and accessibility. (from repository)

The EVORAO Ontology provides a structured and harmonized vocabulary for describing shareable pathogens as characterized biological materials, along with their derived products and associated services, organized into collections. Developed within the EVORA project, it supports consistent metadata annotation across research infrastructures, promoting findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). By aligning with relevant standards and ontologies, EVORAO facilitates cross-domain collaboration, integration, and sharing of pathogenic resources and services to enhance pandemic preparedness and response. While initially focused on virology, EVORAO is designed to be extensible and also supports metadata harmonization for other pathogens. [from repository]

Ontology describing a controlled vocabulary for taxon ranks.

An Apache-based persistent URL (PURL) service

Voc4Cat is a [SKOS](https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/) vocabulary for the catalysis disciplines. The vocabulary was created in the [NFDI4Cat](http://www.nfdi4cat.org/) initiative. The first collection of terms was published in June 2023 with a focus on photo catalysis. Our goal is to continuously extend the vocabulary to other areas of catalysis and related disciplines like chemical engineering or materials science.

The submission-centric metadata schema for the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA).

This is the Provenance Information for Materials Science (PRIMA) Ontology, version 3.0, aligned with PMDco v3 and based on BFO (Basic Formal Ontology). This complete module imports all PRIMA modules (core, data-analysis-lifecycle, dataset, experiment, and computational) in their v3.0 versions. [from https://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/prima/complete]

An extension of Schema.org to annotate metadata on software projects

An international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary