Health & Life Sciences
15 standards in this subject area
Bioschemas
Extends Schema.org with usage profiles for genes, proteins, datasets, and other life science resources.
Cellosaurus
A comprehensive knowledge resource on cell lines, covering nomenclature, cross-references, and provenance.

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
(ChEBI)An ontology classifying small chemical compounds by structure, role, and biological activity.

Data Documentation Initiative
(DDI)Documents surveys, questionnaires, and statistical data across the full research data lifecycle.

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
(FHIR)A resource-based framework for exchanging clinical and administrative healthcare data over the web.

Gene Ontology
(GO)The most widely used ontology for annotating gene function across all living species.

Human Phenotype Ontology
(HPO)A controlled vocabulary of over 18,000 clinical features for rare disease diagnosis and genomics.

International Classification of Diseases
(ICD)The global standard for classifying diseases and causes of death, used by over 130 countries.
ISA-Tab
(ISA)Structures multi-omics experiment metadata into investigation, study, and assay layers.

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
(LOINC)Universal codes for identifying laboratory tests, clinical observations, and survey instruments.

Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH)A hierarchical thesaurus of 30,000 descriptors for indexing biomedical literature in PubMed.

NCBI Taxonomy Database
The authoritative classification of over 2.5 million organisms across all NCBI sequence databases.
NLM Classification
(NLMC)Organizes biomedical library collections with alphanumeric schedules for preclinical and clinical sciences.

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry
(OBO Foundry)A collaborative framework of interoperable ontologies for the biological and biomedical sciences.

SNOMED Clinical Terms
(SNOMED CT)The world's most comprehensive clinical terminology, coding over 350,000 medical concepts.
