Kinship Ontology (KIN)

The Kinship Ontology

The Kinship Ontology (KIN) is a family relations ontology developed as part of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Pedigree Standard project. It allows using an OWL reasoner to automatically validate a family history graph and infer new relations.

The latest version of the ontology can be found at: http://purl.org/ga4gh/kin.owl.

The Ontology is open-source and managed in this GitHub repo: https://github.com/GA4GH-Pedigree-Standard/family_history_terminology

Note: We are working with colleagues to explore migrating KIN to the Relations Ontology (RO).