The uPheno project aims to unify the annotation of phenotypes across species in a manner analogous to unification of gene function annotation by the Gene Ontology. uPheno 2.0 builds on earlier efforts with a new strategy that directly leverages the work of the phenotype ontology development community and incorporates phenotypes from a much wider range of species. We have organised a [collaborative community effort](https://github.com/obophenotype/upheno/wiki/Phenotype-Ontologies-Reconciliation-Effort), including representatives of all major model organism databases, to document and align [formal design patterns](https://github.com/obophenotype/upheno/tree/master/src/patterns) for representing phenotypes and further develop reference ontologies, such as PATO, which are used in these patterns. A common development infrastructure makes it easy to use these design patterns to generate both species-specific ontologies and a species-independent layer that subsumes them.
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