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Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine

Last uploaded: May 4, 2026






Details
Acronym COB
Visibility Public
Description The Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine (COB) brings together key terms from a wide range of OBO projects into a single, small ontology. The goal is to improve interoperabilty and reuse across the OBO community through better coordination of key terms., COB brings together key terms from a wide range of OBO projects to improve interoperability.
Status Production
Format OWL
Categories
Upper Level Ontology
Groups
OBO Foundry
Contact
Bjoern Peters ([email protected])
Creation date
May 4, 2026
Deprecated
false See more...
Homepage
https://github.com/OBOFoundry/COB See more...
License
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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
Submission date
May 4, 2026
Version IRI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cob/releases/2025-12-15/cob.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cob/releases/2025-12-15/cob.owl
Version information
2025-12-15 See more...
uri
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cob.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cob.owl
Submissions
Version Released Uploaded Downloads
2025-12-15 (Parsed, Indexed, Metrics, Annotator) 05/04/2026 05/04/2026 OWL | CSV | RDF/XML | Diff
2025-12-12 (Archived) 12/12/2025 12/12/2025 OWL | Diff
2025-06-30 (Archived) 09/09/2025 09/09/2025 OWL | Diff
2025-02-20 (Archived) 02/20/2025 02/20/2025 OWL | Diff
2025-01-23 (Archived) 01/23/2025 01/23/2025 OWL | Diff
2024-09-20 (Archived) 09/20/2024 09/20/2024 OWL | Diff
2023-11-16 (Archived) 01/24/2024 01/24/2024 OWL | Diff
2023-05-12 (Archived) 05/12/2023 05/12/2023 OWL | Diff
2023-02-19 (Archived) 04/28/2023 04/28/2023 OWL | Diff
2022-11-02 (Archived) 11/08/2022 11/08/2022 OWL | Diff
2022-05-02 (Archived) 05/02/2022 05/02/2022 OWL | Diff
2021-09-13 (Archived) 09/13/2021 09/13/2021 OWL | Diff
2021-09-11 (Archived) 09/12/2021 09/12/2021 OWL | Diff
2021-09-07 (Archived) 09/11/2021 09/11/2021 OWL | Diff
2021-02-21 (Archived) 02/25/2021 02/25/2021 OWL | Diff
2020-09-02 (Archived) 09/04/2020 09/04/2020 OWL | Diff
2020-09-01 (Archived) 09/01/2020 09/01/2020 OWL | Diff
2020-08-31 (Archived) 08/31/2020 08/31/2020 OWL | Diff
2020-08-27 (Archived) 08/28/2020 08/28/2020 OWL | Diff
2020-05-14 (Archived) 06/03/2020 06/03/2020 OWL | Diff
unknown (Archived) 04/15/2020 05/12/2020 OWL
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Metrics
Classes 69
Individuals 0
Properties 31
Maximum depth 3
Maximum number of children 10
Average number of children 3
Classes with a single child 5
Classes with more than 25 children 0
Classes with no definition 22
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