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The Prescription of Drugs Ontology

Last uploaded: June 9, 2026

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Acronym	PDRO
Visibility	Public
Description	PDRO is a realist ontology that aims to represent the domain of drug prescriptions. Such an ontology is currently missing in the OBOFoundry and is highly relevant to the domains of existing ontologies like DRON, OMRSE and OAE. PDRO’s central focus is the structure of a drug prescription, which is represented as a mereology of informational entities. Our current use cases are (1) refining this structure (e.g., adding closure axioms, cardinality, datatype bindings, etc) for prospectively standardizing local electronic prescriptions and (2) annotating prescription data of differing EHRs for detecting inappropriate prescriptions using a central semantic framework. Future ontological work will include aligning PDRO more closely with the Document Acts Ontology.
Status	Production
Format	OWL
Categories	Health
Groups	OBO Foundry

Contact	Paul Fabry ([email protected])
Creation date	June 9, 2026
Deprecated	false See more...
Homepage	https://github.com/OpenLHS/PDRO See more...
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Modification date	June 9, 2026
Notes	An ontology of drug prescriptions See more... An ontology of drug prescriptions - full version, imports merged. See more... Une ontologie des prescriptions et des rapports de prise de médicaments See more...
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
Root of obsolete branch	http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
Subject	https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Health See more...
Submission date	June 9, 2026
Version IRI	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pdro/2026-06-09/pdro.owl http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pdro/2026-06-09/pdro.owl
Version information	2026-06-09 See more...
uri	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pdro.owl http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pdro.owl

Version	Released	Uploaded	Downloads
2026-06-09 (Parsed, Indexed, Metrics, Annotator)	06/09/2026	06/09/2026	OWL \| CSV \| RDF/XML \| Diff
2021-06-08 (Archived)	06/08/2026	06/08/2026	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	02/25/2020	09/04/2020	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	09/23/2019	09/23/2019	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	07/23/2018	07/23/2018	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	06/19/2018	06/19/2018	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	06/09/2018	06/09/2018	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	06/08/2018	06/08/2018	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	06/07/2018	06/07/2018	OWL \| Diff
unknown (Archived)	11/28/2016	09/25/2017	OWL
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Classes	321
Individuals	18
Properties	134
Maximum depth	9
Maximum number of children	23
Average number of children	2
Classes with a single child	54
Classes with more than 25 children	0
Classes with no definition	56

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