The Environment Ontology is a resource and research target for the semantically controlled description of environmental entities. The ontology's initial aim was the representation of the biomes, environmental features, and environmental materials pertinent to genomic and microbiome-related investigations.

Prefix

envo

Preferred Prefix

ENVO

Keywords

ecology environmental material environmental science epidemiology life science marine metagenome microbiome nutritional science obo ontology

Version

2025-02-05

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Pier Luigi Buttigieg   0000-0002-4366-3088   pbuttigieg

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Environment Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7,8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

09200010   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Environment Ontology should match this regular expression:
^ENVO:\d{7,8}$

Example CURIE

ENVO:09200010

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For , the banana looks like ENVO:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like ENVO:09200010 (instead of the canonical form 09200010) and CURIEs for this resource that look like ENVO:ENVO:09200010 (instead of the canonical form ENVO:09200010). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2016 The environment ontology in 2016: bridging domains with increased scope, semantic density, and interoperation
• 2016 EXTRACT: interactive extraction of environment metadata and term suggestion for metagenomic sample annotation
• 2015 Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment
• 2013 The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Depends On (8) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )

CHEBI FOODON GO NCBITaxon PCO PO RO UBERON

Appears In (10) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AGRO CDNO ECOCORE ECTO FOODON ONS PCO RBO SCDO UBERON

In Collection

NFDI4Chem Collection

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 09200010 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Environment Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.