Ontologies

There are approximately 45 tables in the Shared_Data schema that ImmPort identifies as "Lookup Tables", or "lk tables". These tables are used to harmonize data from a study to study as they are populated using standarized terms from ontologies. Fields in ImmPort tables then reference these lk tables; several fields in ImmPort tables require the user to select a value from a pre-set value list, and these values lists are the lk tables, containing ontology terms.

Please see below a list of ontologies supported in ImmPort's data model, the lk tables that terms from these ontologies populate, and ImmPort tables and fields ("columns") which reference these lk tables and subsequent ontology terms:

Ontology	Link	LK Table Name	LK Values	Table Name	Column Name

Please see below a full list of the ontologies referenced by ImmPort:

ONTOlOGIES
Brenda Tissue Ontology	Chemical Entities of Biological Interest Ontology	Clinical Methods Ontology
Cell Ontology	Cell Line Ontology	Clinical Measurement Ontology
Disease Ontology	Foundational Model Ontology	Gazetteer
Gene Ontology	Gene Ontology	Human Gene Dataset (including HUGO)
Human Metabolome Database	Human Phenotype Ontology	Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology
Mouse Gene Dataset	NCBI Taxonomy	National Cancer Institute Thesaurus
Ontology for Biomedical Investigations	Ontology for General Medical Science	Ontology for MIRNA Target
The Ontology for Immune Epitomes	Phenotype And Trait Ontology	Protein Ontology
PubMed	SNOMED CT	The Statistical Methods Ontology
Symptom Ontology	Uberon Multi-species anatomy Ontology	Uniprot
Units of Measurement Ontology	Vaccine Ontology	RxNorm