BFO
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology used in ontology engineering and biomedical informatics. It provides a minimal, philosophically informed foundation intended to support interoperability and reuse across domain-specific ontologies. BFO is widely adopted within the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry and serves as a common framework for grounding domain ontologies that describe biological, medical, and related information.
Structure and core concepts: BFO defines a small set of domain-neutral categories and relationships that can
Purpose and use: The primary aim of BFO is to provide a shared ontological substrate on which
Development and scope: BFO is developed and maintained by an international community of researchers and practitioners