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.

The ontologies ImmPort references are:
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

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	LK Table Name	Table Name	Column Name