bfo.md

layout	ontology_detail
id	bfo
in_foundry_order	1
contact	email label phismith@buffalo.edu Barry Smith
description	The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.
domain	upper
homepage	http://ifomis.org/bfo/
mailing_list	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bfo-discuss
tracker	https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/issues
products	id bfo.owl id bfo.obo
license	url label http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY
title	Basic Formal Ontology
depicted_by	https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/12972134?v=3&s=200
browsers	label title url BioPortal BioPortal Browser http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BFO?p=classes

BFO grows out of a philosophical orientation which overlaps with that of DOLCE and SUMO. Unlike these, however, it is narrowly focused on the task of providing a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research, as for example in biomedicine within the framework of the OBO Foundry. Thus BFO does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the special sciences domains. BFO is the upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.

• BFO homepage
• BFO mailing list
• BFO is released under CC-by 3.0 Unported License