Question

What is Biomedical investigation Ontology (OBI), what it is used for, and what it consists of (components)?

Answer 1

Ontology for biomedical investigation(OBI) is an open access, integrated ontology for the description of biological and clinical investigations.

• The primary use of ontologies in bioinformatics has been the annotation of database records.
• It has a rich underpinning of computational logic.
• Supports the annotation process by automatically checking for consistency as well as enabling rich querying over data repositories.

OBI components:

Most of OBI classes are subclass of some BFO(basic formal ontology) class.

Ontology has scope of modelling all type of biomedical investigations as such it contains some of aspects:

• Biological material-for exp,blood plasma
• Instrument-for exp,microarray.
• Information content-such as image or a digital information entity such as electronic media record.
• Design and execution of investigation-for exp,study design, electrophoresis.