The Anatomography website is maintained by the DBCLS (Database Center for Life Science) non-profit research institute located at the University of Tokyo.

Anatomical diagrams generated by Anatomography, and 3D polygon data used on the website (called BodyParts3D), are freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Anatomography was launched on Feb. 9, 2009[1] by founder and chief director Kousaku Okubo [ja], professor of the DNA Data Bank of Japan at the National Institute of Genetics.

[11] Diagrams from Anatomography are used, for example, in Canadian science TV show Le code Chastenay,[12] Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, as lecture material in universities, and elsewhere to share knowledge.

The FMA is an open-source anatomical ontology developed and maintained by the Structural Informatics Group at the University of Washington.