biolink
Biolink is a community-driven data model and interoperability layer for biomedicine that aims to unify heterogeneous biological data into comparable graphs. It provides a standardized vocabulary of entity types and relationship types that enables researchers to integrate data from diverse databases and ontologies into a single knowledge graph.
The Biolink Model was developed by the Monarch Initiative and has since been adopted by multiple projects
Core concepts include semantic types such as Gene, Protein, Disease, Phenotype, Chemical, Pathway, and AnatomicalEntity, as
Identifiers and alignment: Biolink uses CURIE-style prefixes and maps to identifiers across major resources (HGNC, Ensembl,
Format, tools, and usage: The model is published with a formal specification and reference implementations; it
Impact: Biolink provides a common semantic substrate for biomedical knowledge graphs, enabling cross-species and cross-domain queries,