To cite your use of the Disease Ontology in your work, please cite the following publication:

Baron JA, Johnson CMS, Schor MA, Olley D, Nickel L, Felix V, Bello SM, Greene C, Lichenstein R, Bisordi K, Koka R, Bearer C, Macatangay R, Ada N, Ballenger K, Bliss E, Colliver L, Dobbins G, Heitzig H, Dixon S, Semesky P, Garth J, Fairchild M, Gaskin P, Zahid S, Castillo R, Edwards S, Widjaja A, Usui Y, Lynch E, Clarkson M, Detwiler T, Schriml LM (2026). The DO-KB knowledgebase 2026 update: expanding programmatic and language access. Nucleic Acids Research, 54(D1):D1425-D1436. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1213. PMID:41296549.

Linking to Specific Disease Terms

Individual disease terms in the Disease Ontology can be linked to in two ways:

1. Using the term's IRI/PURL: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_[0-9]{1,7}
2. Using the direct disease-ontology.org URL with the ?id parameter: https://www.disease-ontology.org/?id=DOID:[0-9]{1,7}

• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9256
• https://www.disease-ontology.org/?id=DOID:9256

License

DO CC0 License - The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication CC0 1.0 Universal license allows for the copying, modification and distribution of the Disease Ontology content without asking permission.