The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology

Abstract

The Foundational Model of Anatomy ontology (FMA) is an evolving computer-based knowledge source for bioinformatics; it is concerned with the representation of classes and relationships necessary for the symbolic modeling of the structure of the human body in a form that is understandable to humans and is also navigable, parseable and interpretable by machine-based systems. Specifically, the FMA is a domain ontology that represents a coherent body of explicit declarative knowledge about human anatomy. Its ontological framework can be applied and extended to all other species.