# FMA

The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) is an evolving computer-based knowledge source for biomedical informatics; it is concerned with the representation of classes or types and relationships necessary for the symbolic representation of the phenotypic structure of the human body in a form that is understandable to humans and is also navigable, parseable and interpretable by machine-based systems. Specifically, the FMA is a domain ontology that represents a coherent body of explicit declarative knowledge about human anatomy. Its ontological framework can be applied and extended to all other species. The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) ontology is one of the information resources integrated in the distributed framework of the Anatomy Information System developed and maintained by the Structural Informatics Group at the University of Washington. The FMA is open source.

The main fma classes are in fma.owl, which can be loaded directly into Protege. The file pun_fma.owl provides fma puns, which are OWL individuals corresponding to OWL classes. These can either be loaded on top of fma.owl, or can be loaded first into Protege, and will in turn import fma.owl. The puns are automatically derived from fma.owl in order to make SparQL queries easier, but are not an essential component of the FMA. 

For more information see the [Foundational Model of Anatomy](http://si.washington.edu/info-books/project-details/foundational-model-of-anatomy/) info book. For supplementary FMA resources see the [Summary of FMA Resources](http://si.washington.edu/info-books/project-details/foundational-model-of-anatomy/summary-of-fma-resources/) page in that book.