The Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) is an ontology of entities involved in a clinical encounter. OGMS includes very general terms that are used across medical disciplines, including: 'disease', 'disorder', 'disease course', 'diagnosis', 'patient', and 'healthcare provider'. OGMS uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper-level ontology. The scope of OGMS is restricted to humans, but many terms can be applied to a variety of organisms. OGMS provides a formal theory of disease that can be further elaborated by specific disease ontologies. This theory is implemented using OWL-DL and OBO Relation Ontology relations and is available in OWL and OBO formats.
OGMS is based on the papers Toward an Ontological Treatment of Disease and Diagnosis and On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities. The ontology attempts to address some of the issues raised at the Workshop on Ontology of Diseases (Dallas, TX) and the Signs, Symptoms, and Findings Workshop(Milan, Italy). OGMS was formerly called the clinical phenotype ontology. Terms from OGMS hang from the Basic Formal Ontology.
NEWS: The OGMS-based Cardiovascular Disease Ontology was the winner of the 2014 Ontology Competition at the FOIS (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) conference in Rio de Janeiro. http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/paper-and-competition-awards.html
We are always interested in application-specific use cases for OGMS. Existing and planned extensions of OGMS include:
- Sleep Domain Ontology (SDO)
- Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) and its suite of extensions.
- Ontology of Medically Relevant Social Entities (OMRSE)
- Vital Sign Ontology (VSO)
- Mental Diseases
- Oral Health and Disease ontology
- Cardiovascular Disease Ontology
- Mental Functioning Ontology
- Drug Ontology
- Ocular Disease Ontology (ODO)
If you are interested in participating in the development of OGMS, please send email to matthew.diller@nih.gov. Be sure to include a github-account username with your request.
OGMS development meeting notes and associated files are located at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pSAYgVJHUxIZ0ZlxYbA4gGql8JKvETh4
Development Notes and agendas located at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_gNPXjC2-pr5wvrmO1iVd2Cp9rzqf0qQG2L4UUJwBIs/edit
More information can be found at https://obofoundry.org/ontology/ogms
The latest version of the ontology can always be found at:
https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms.owl
(note this will not show up until the request has been approved by obofoundry.org)
Editors of this ontology should use the edit version, src/ontology/ogms-edit.owl
Please use this GitHub repository's Issue tracker to request new terms/classes or report errors or specific concerns related to the ontology.
This ontology repository was created using the Ontology Development Kit (ODK).