bfo.md

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ontology_detail	bfo	email label phismith@buffalo.edu Barry Smith	The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.	upper	http://ifomis.org/bfo/	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bfo-discuss	https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/issues	id bfo.owl id bfo.obo	url label http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY	Basic Formal Ontology	https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/12972134?v=3&s=200	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.

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• BFO is released under CC-by 3.0 Unported License