HPO is hard to find on OBO Foundry and BioPortal

[nlharris]

I tried searching for HPO on BioPortal and was puzzled not to find it. It turns out it’s listed as HP (https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HP). HP is the term prefix, but HPO is definitely referred to (widely) as HPO. I asked BioPortal if there was a way to add that as a synonym for the ontology name (and noted that, more generally, a way to add synonyms for the ontology name or identifier would be a nice feature).

Jennifer (the lead BioPortal developer) replied (in the BioPortal issue:

The HPO acronym is already taken in BioPortal by the "Hypertension-Ontology" (https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HPO).
I poked around the MOD standard website (https://github.com/FAIR-IMPACT/MOD), but I don't see any kind of metadata property that's used for housing synonyms for ontology names or identifiers. That said, I couldn't find any human readable documentation of the MOD standard, so it's possible I'm missing something.

I then went to look for HPO on the OBO Foundry, and discovered that it is also "hp" there, and is not findable if you search for HPO (see screenshot).

If I were on the HPO team, I would be bummed that users can't find HPO (by that name) in the two most popular biomedical ontology resources. I don't know what courses of action are available to you to address this.

[Note that this is not a bug, nor is it a typo, but I can't change those labels.]

[pnrobinson]

Thanks for looking into this, Nomi! I also do not know of any solution.
Nico @matentzn - if you happen to have an idea of what we could do here, please let's talk. Otherwise, we will just have to live with this, I think it is too late to change HPO to HP!

[matentzn]

This will fix it for obofoundry:

OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io#2670

As an aside:

I don't know what MOD has to do with this discussion, but the appropriate MOD property would be https://fair-impact.github.io/MOD/index-en.html#https://vocab.org/vann/preferredNamespacePrefix

https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HPO is a tiny application ontology which seems to exist twice (https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HTN). HPO is a widely used well established standard ontology, and I would recommend to serve that from the /HPO endpoint in bioportal.

@nlharris if thats ok, please close this issue! Thanks!

[nlharris]

fixed by OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io#2670