Ontology
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CLCell Ontology
The reference ontology of cell types across organisms, with a large and growing branch of neuron and glial types.
OWLOBOJSON
FAIR 48/48 · 8 adopters
Neuroscience ontologies, schemas & standards
The map of neuroscience ontologies & schemas.
A curated, automatically evaluated catalog of neuroscience ontologies, schemas, vocabularies and data standards. Every entry is scored against the FAIR principles, ontology quality, maintenance and community adoption, with the exact version evaluated and full provenance.
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- 57
- Categories
- 11
- Adopting projects
- 83
- Avg. score
- 39
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All categories →Anatomy & Brain RegionsStructures of the nervous system, from multi-species anatomy to species-specific brain region hierarchies.13 resourcesAtlases & Reference SpacesCoordinate frameworks and parcellations that anchor data to a common brain space.3 resourcesCell TypesNeuron and glia types, cell taxonomies and the schemas used to annotate them.5 resourcesBehavior & CognitionBehaviors, mental processes, cognitive tasks and experimental paradigms.6 resourcesDisease & PhenotypeNeurological and psychiatric diseases, clinical phenotypes and disorder-specific ontologies.7 resourcesMolecular & SynapticGenes, synaptic functions, neurotransmitters and other chemical entities.3 resourcesNeuroimaging & EventsStandards for organising and describing MRI, EEG/MEG data, results and experimental events.4 resourcesNeurophysiology DataSchemas and terminologies for electrophysiology, optical physiology and behavioral recordings.2 resourcesComputational ModelingLanguages and ontologies for describing neuron, network and brain models.2 resourcesMetadata & Knowledge GraphsMetadata models and knowledge-graph schemas used by neuroscience archives and consortia.8 resourcesUmbrella TerminologiesBroad neuroscience vocabularies and term registries that span many domains.4 resources
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Ontology
A96
UBERONUber-anatomy Ontology
A cross-species anatomy ontology covering animals, with extensive coverage of nervous system structures. It is the common anatomy backbone for many cell, expression and phenotype resources.
OWLOBOJSON
FAIR 47/48 · 13 adopters
Ontology
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GOGene Ontology
Describes gene product functions, processes and locations, including synaptic transmission, neurotransmitter release and neuron development.
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FAIR 48/48 · 6 adopters
Ontology
A94
MONDOMondo Disease Ontology
A unified disease ontology that merges many disease resources, with comprehensive coverage of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders.
OWLOBOJSON
FAIR 48/48 · 6 adopters
Ontology
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FBbtDrosophila Anatomy Ontology
Anatomy of Drosophila melanogaster, including thousands of named neuron types linked to connectome datasets.
OWLOBO
FAIR 48/48 · 2 adopters
Ontology
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ChEBIChemical Entities of Biological Interest
An ontology of small molecules, including neurotransmitters, neuromodulators and neuroactive drugs, with their chemical roles.
OWLOBOSDF
FAIR 47/48 · 2 adopters
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Vocabulary
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HEDHierarchical Event Descriptors
A structured vocabulary and annotation system for describing experimental events in time-series data such as EEG, MEG, fMRI and behavior.
XMLMediaWikiTSV
FAIR 27/48 · 2 adopters
Ontology
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HPOHuman Phenotype Ontology
Standard vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities in human disease, with a large nervous system abnormality branch used in rare-disease diagnostics.
OWLOBOJSON
FAIR 45/48 · 2 adopters
Data standard
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BIDSBrain Imaging Data Structure
A community standard for organising and describing neuroimaging and related data (MRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, PET, microscopy, and more). Its rules are published as a machine-readable YAML schema.
YAML schemaJSON
FAIR 24/48 · 3 adopters
Schema
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BICAN modelsBICAN Knowledge Graph Models
LinkML data models for the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) knowledgebase: taxonomies, assertions and evidence, library generation, anatomical structures, genome annotation, donors and a BICAN subset of Biolink. JSON Schema and Pydantic models are generated from the LinkML sources.
LinkMLJSON SchemaPydantic
FAIR 16/48 · 2 adopters
Schema
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openMINDS
A set of metadata models and controlled terms for neuroscience graph databases, covering datasets, subjects, methods, software, models and brain atlases (SANDS).
JSON SchemaJSON-LD
FAIR 22/48 · 1 adopter
Schema
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DANDI schemaDANDI Archive Metadata Schema
The metadata models of the DANDI neurophysiology archive. Pydantic models in the dandischema library define Dandiset and asset metadata; versioned JSON Schemas plus a JSON-LD context are generated from them and published in the dandi/schema repository. The library also converts Dandiset metadata to DataCite for DOIs.
JSON SchemaJSON-LDPydantic
FAIR 24/48 · 1 adopter
Beyond neuroscience
Looking for another domain?
NeuroSchema covers neuroscience. For ontologies and schemas in every other field, from life sciences, chemistry and earth science to engineering, privacy, law and computing, use our sister catalog SchemaScope. It is scored with the same rubric.
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