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Biomedical Burden Ontology

Last uploaded: September 27, 2025

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Acronym	BBO
Visibility	Public
Description	The Biomedical Burden Ontology (BBO) is a BFO-aligned OWL ontology for representing and integrating burden-related aspects of patient experience in biomedicine. It models burden as an affective, appraisal-based process that links situations (e.g., symptom, treatment, disease-course, and side-effect processes) to their perceived impacts on goals and expectations, informed by predictive processing/active inference accounts of cognition. BBO reuses and extends MFO, MFOEM, OGMS, and CCO/IAO, and provides patterns to annotate questionnaire-based measurements (e.g., PETS, MTBQ, MDASI), enabling semantic interoperability, automated reasoning, and analysis of burden across research and clinical settings. , The Biomedical Burden Ontology is an ontology of biomedical burdens. It includes support for burden-related entities, such as treatment burden, symptom burden, and burden appraisals.
Status	Beta
Format	OWL
Categories	Human Health

Contact	Paul Smart ([email protected])
Creation date	September 27, 2025
Deprecated	false See more...
Homepage	https://git.soton.ac.uk/meldb/ontologies/ See more...
Imports	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM.owl http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM.owl http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/ArtifactOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/ArtifactOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/GeospatialOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/GeospatialOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/ExtendedRelationOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/ExtendedRelationOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/UnitsOfMeasureOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/UnitsOfMeasureOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/InformationEntityOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/InformationEntityOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/FacilityOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/FacilityOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/TimeOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/TimeOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/QualityOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/QualityOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/AgentOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/AgentOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/CurrencyUnitOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/CurrencyUnitOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/EventOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/EventOntology http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms.owl http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms.owl http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/AllCoreOntology http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/AllCoreOntology
Keywords	Treatment Burden See more... Predictive Processing See more... Medical Ontology See more... Symptom Burden See more... Active Inference See more... Patient Phenomenology See more... Basic Formal Ontology See more...
License	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Object creation date property	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
Object modification date property	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
Prior version	https://git.soton.ac.uk/meldb/ontologies/-/raw/main/archive/BBO/2025-09-24/BBO.owl https://git.soton.ac.uk/meldb/ontologies/-/raw/main/archive/BBO/2025-09-24/BBO.owl
Subject	https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Human See more... https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Health See more...
Submission date	September 27, 2025
Version IRI	https://git.soton.ac.uk/meldb/ontologies/-/raw/main/archive/BBO/2025-09-27/BBO.owl https://git.soton.ac.uk/meldb/ontologies/-/raw/main/archive/BBO/2025-09-27/BBO.owl
Version information	2025-09-27 See more...
uri	https://git.soton.ac.uk/meldb/ontologies/-/raw/main/BBO.owl https://git.soton.ac.uk/meldb/ontologies/-/raw/main/BBO.owl

Version	Released	Uploaded	Downloads
2025-09-27 (Parsed, Indexed, Metrics, Annotator)	09/27/2025	09/27/2025	OWL \| CSV \| RDF/XML \| Diff
2025-09-24 (Archived)	09/24/2025	09/24/2025	OWL \| Diff
2025-09-24 (Archived)	09/24/2025	09/24/2025	OWL

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Classes	2,192
Individuals	369
Properties	294
Maximum depth	5
Maximum number of children	57
Average number of children	3
Classes with a single child	193
Classes with more than 25 children	7
Classes with no definition	55

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