ECTO Ontology Table (Environmental Conditions, Treatments & Exposures)
Source:R/data_ecto.R
ecto.RdA data frame of terms from the ECTO ontology, downloaded from BioPortal on June 19, 2025. ECTO describes environmental exposures relevant to human health.
Format
A data.frame with 6 columns and one row per ontology term:
- id
Ontology term ID (e.g.,
"ECTO:0000010").- name
Human-readable label (e.g.,
"air pollution exposure").- parents
Vector of parent term IDs.
- children
Vector of child term IDs.
- ancestors
All ancestor term IDs.
- obsolete
Logical;
TRUEif the term is obsolete.
Source
BioPortal ECTO Ontology, downloaded June 19, 2025.
Examples
data(ecto)
head(ecto)
#> id name parents
#> BFO:0000001 BFO:0000001 entity
#> BFO:0000002 BFO:0000002 continuant BFO:0000001
#> BFO:0000003 BFO:0000003 occurrent BFO:0000001
#> BFO:0000004 BFO:0000004 independent continuant BFO:0000002
#> BFO:0000006 BFO:0000006 spatial region BFO:0000141
#> BFO:0000008 BFO:0000008 temporal region BFO:0000003
#> children
#> BFO:0000001 BFO:0000002; BFO:0000003
#> BFO:0000002 BFO:0000004; BFO:0000020; BFO:0000031
#> BFO:0000003 BFO:0000008; BFO:0000015; PO:0009012
#> BFO:0000004 BFO:0000040; BFO:0000141; CARO:0030000; UBERON:0001062
#> BFO:0000006
#> BFO:0000008 BFO:0000038
#> ancestors
#> BFO:0000001 BFO:0000001
#> BFO:0000002 BFO:0000001; BFO:0000002
#> BFO:0000003 BFO:0000001; BFO:0000003
#> BFO:0000004 BFO:0000001; BFO:0000002; BFO:0000004
#> BFO:0000006 BFO:0000001; BFO:0000002; BFO:0000004; BFO:0000141; BFO:0000006
#> BFO:0000008 BFO:0000001; BFO:0000003; BFO:0000008
#> obsolete equivalent_to
#> BFO:0000001 FALSE
#> BFO:0000002 FALSE
#> BFO:0000003 FALSE
#> BFO:0000004 FALSE
#> BFO:0000006 FALSE
#> BFO:0000008 FALSE