BioPortal: A Web Repository for Biomedical Ontologies and Data Resources

Natalya Fridman Noy, Nigam Shah, Benjamin Dai, Michael Dorf, Nicholas Griffith, Clément Jonquet, Michael Montegut, Daniel L. Rubin, Cherie Youn, Mark A. Musen
2008 International Semantic Web Conference  
Biomedical ontologies provide essential domain knowledge to drive data integration, information retrieval, data annotation, naturallanguage processing, and decision support. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is developing BioPortal, a Web-based system that serves as a repository for biomedical ontologies. Bio-Portal defines relationships among those ontologies and between the ontologies and online data resources such as PubMed, Clin-icalTrials.gov, and the Gene Expression Omnibus
more » ... . Bio-Portal supports not only the technical requirements for access to biomedical ontologies either via Web browsers or via Web services, but also community-based participation in the evaluation and evolution of ontology content. BioPortal enables ontology users to learn what biomedical ontologies exist, what a particular ontology might be good for, and how individual ontologies relate to one another. BioPortal is available online at http://alpha.bioontology.org.
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