| Acronym | BFO |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | 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. |
| Status | Production |
| Format | OWL |
| Contact | Barry Smith, phismith@buffalo.edu |
| Categories | Upper Level Ontology |
| Groups | OBO Foundry |
| Classes | 35 |
| Individuals | 0 |
| Properties | 0 |
| Maximum depth | 5 |
| Maximum number of children | 4 |
| Average number of children | 2 |
| Classes with a single child | 3 |
| Classes with more than 25 children | 0 |
| Classes with no definition | 27 |
An Ontology for Drug Discovery Investigations
Bioinformatics Web Service Ontology
Decision Support System for the Elderly
Immunology Database and Analysis Portal
Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontologies
Ontology for the obstetric and neonatal domain
Open Access Journals Integrated service System Project (GoOA)