UPDATE: We have now migrated OGMS to GitHub, please refer to: https://github.com/OGMS If you would like to report a new issue, please refer to: https://github.com/OGMS/ogms/issues/new

You can get the OWL version of OGMS at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms.owl'>http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms.owl.

The development version of OGMS can be found at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms/dev/ogms.owl'>http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms/dev/ogms.owl.

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 http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/'>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 http://obofoundry.org/ro/'>OBO Relation Ontology relations and is available in http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/'>OWL and http://www.geneontology.org/GO.format.obo-1_2.shtml'>OBO formats.

OGMS is based on the papers http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf'>Toward an Ontological Treatment of Disease and Diagnosis and http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/ISMB/ISMB_Bio-ontologies.pdf'>On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities. The ontology attempts to address some of the issues raised at the http://bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Workshop_on_Ontology_of_Diseases'>Workshop on Ontology of Diseases (Dallas, TX) and the http://bimib.disco.unimib.it/index.php/SSFW09'>Signs, Symptoms, and Findings Workshop(Milan, Italy). OGMS was formerly called the clinical phenotype ontology. Terms from OGMS hang from the http://www.ifomis.org/bfo'>Basic Formal Ontology.

NEWS: The OGMS-based Cardiovascular Disease Ontology was the winner of this year's 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, such as those described http://www.buffalo.edu/~ag33/OGMSApplied.ppt'>here. Existing and planned extensions of OGMS include: * http://datahub.io/dataset/bioportal-sdo'>Sleep Domain Ontology (SDO) * http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org/Home.html'>Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) and its suite of http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org/page/Extensions'>extensions. * http://code.google.com/p/omrse/'>Ontology of Medically Relevant Social Entities (OMRSE) * http://code.google.com/p/vital-sign-ontology/'>Vital Sign Ontology (VSO) * http://ontology.buffalo.edu/psychiatry/JBSCeustersSmith2010.pdf'>Mental Diseases * http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ppt/OGMS/OGMS_Applied.ppt'>Examples of OGMS applied to specific diseases. * http://code.google.com/p/ohd-ontology'>Oral Health and Disease ontology * http://code.google.com/p/cvdo/'>Cardiovascular Disease Ontology * http://code.google.com/p/mental-functioning-ontology/'>Mental Functioning Ontology * http://code.google.com/p/onstr/'>Ontology for Newborn Screening Follow-up and Translational Research * http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/papers/research/icbo2013_submission_40.pdf'>Drug Ontology * http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/papers/ec/icbo2013_submission_56.pdf'>Model for Clinical Information (MCI) * http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/papers/posters/icbo2013_submission_67.pdf'>Ocular Disease Ontology (ODO)

If you are interested in participating in the development of OGMS, please send email to albertgoldfain@gmail.com. Be sure to include a google-account username with your request (this will be the username associated with a gmail address).

There is a google groups for discussing the project - http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss . Click the "Apply for group membership" link to join, or send an email to alanruttenberg@gmail.com with the email address you would like added.