LBO Project

Livestock Breed Ontology (LBO)

Enhancing the ability to standardize breed nomenclature

The Livestock Breed Ontology (LBO) is a controlled vocabulary for the unambiguous description of breeds. Its utility include proper identification of inherited variation sources in genetics/genomic studies.

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(Version: 7.9 with 1,109 terms, updated on Apr 20, 2022)

Data release history:
v1.0: Sep 07, 2011 v1.1: Dec 01, 2015 v1.7: Sep 20, 2016 v2.1: Dec 18, 2017 v3.2: Jan 29, 2018 v3.3: Apr 25, 2018 v3.5: Jul 17, 2018 v3.6: Sep 06, 2018 v3.7: Nov 21, 2018	v3.8: Nov 21, 2018 v4.1: Jan 24, 2019 v4.2: Apr 18, 2019 v4.3: Apr 25, 2019 v4.4: Jun 18, 2019 v4.5: Jul 26, 2019 v5.1: Jan 29, 2020 v5.2: Feb 04, 2020 v5.3: Mar 02, 2020	v5.4: Mar 29, 2020 v5.5: Jul 28, 2020 v5.6: Dec 02, 2020 v6.1: Jan 06, 2021 v6.2: Mar 03, 2021 v6.3: Jun 14, 2021 v6.5: Jul 20, 2021 v6.7: Aug 27, 2021 v7.1: Feb 03, 2022	v7.2: Feb 04, 2022 v7.3: Feb 14, 2022 v7.4: Feb 16, 2022 v7.5: Feb 28, 2022 v7.6: Mar 08, 2022 v7.7: Mar 22, 2022 v7.8: Apr 11, 2022 v7.9: Apr 20, 2022