---
id: "sequence_ontology_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 85
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/sequence_ontology_id"
---

# Sequence Ontology (SO) term ID (`sequence_ontology_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a term in the Sequence Ontology, the controlled vocabulary for the parts of genome annotations and for sequence variants, such as missense_variant. It is SO: and seven digits; OBO PURLs write SO_ instead.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^SO[:_]\d{7}$
```

## Examples

- `SO:0001583` — missense_variant
- `SO:0001157` — DMv4_motif; Bioregistry example
- `SO:1583` (invalid example) — Not padded to seven digits

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `so`

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/so>
- other: <https://bioregistry.io/registry/so>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/sequence_ontology_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/sequence_ontology_id.yaml>