| Acronym | METPO |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | An ontology of ecophysiological traits of microbes, including tolerated and preferred growth conditions, Microbial ecophysiological trait and phenotype ontology, METPO provides standardized terms for the phenotypic traits, growth conditions, metabolic capabilities, and morphology of bacteria and archaea. It integrates heterogeneous microbial trait resources (BactoTraits, BacDive, Madin et al.) and supports knowledge-graph and literature-mining workflows in projects such as KG-Microbe. METPO follows OBO Foundry conventions and reuses terms from PATO, GO, CHEBI, NCBITaxon, and related ontologies where possible., METPO provides terms for microbial ecophysiological traits and phenotypes: growth preferences (temperature, pH, salinity, oxygen), metabolism, and cell morphology of bacteria and archaea. Its primary purpose is to harmonize terminology across major microbial trait databases (BacDive, BactoTraits, Madin bacteria_archaea_traits, MetaTraits) for use in NMDC and KG-Microbe. METPO uses OBO-style annotation patterns (IAO textual definitions, oboInOwl synonyms) and cites terms from OMP, MicrO, ECOCORE, and PATO as definition sources., MetaTraits) for use in KG-Microbe. METPO uses OBO-style annotation patterns (IAO textual definitions |
| Status | Beta |
| Format | OWL |
| Contact | Mark Andrew Miller ([email protected]) Marcin Pawel Joachimiak ([email protected]) |
| Creation date | June 12, 2026
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| Documentation |
https://github.com/berkeleybop/metpo
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| Homepage |
https://github.com/berkeleybop/metpo
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| License | 
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| Modification date | May 18, 2026
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| Submission date | June 12, 2026
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