The DO-KB knowledgebase 2026 update: expanding programmatic and language access
Open Access
- 26 November 2025
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 54 (D1) , D1425-D1436
Abstract
The Human Disease Ontology Knowledgebase (DO-KB; https://disease-ontology.org/), a Global Core Biodata Resource, serves as a reference framework for multiscale biomedical data integration and analysis, within a unifying etiology-based disease classification. In this 2026 update of the Human Disease Ontology (DO) and DO-KB resource, we present significant advances in programmatic data retrieval and disease representation since our previous NARdb publication. Here we report on the development of a DO Nosology education program, the Spanish translation of the DO website and ontology content, and expansion of disease knowledge representation.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Human Genome Research Institute (1U24HG012557-01)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (1R01GM149620)
- University of Kentucky
- NIH (1U24HG012557-01)
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