TY - JOUR
T1 - BioPortal
T2 - Ontologies and integrated data resources at the click of a mouse
AU - Noy, Natalya F.
AU - Shah, Nigam H.
AU - Whetzel, Patricia L.
AU - Dai, Benjamin
AU - Dorf, Michael
AU - Griffith, Nicholas
AU - Jonquet, Clement
AU - Rubin, Daniel L.
AU - Storey, Margaret Anne
AU - Chute, Christopher G.
AU - Musen, Mark A.
N1 - Funding Information:
National Center for Biomedical Ontology, under roadmap-initiative from the National Institutes of Health [grant U54 HG004028]. Funding for open access charge: National Institutes of Health [grant U54 HG004028].
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Biomedical ontologies provide essential domain knowledge to drive data integration, information retrieval, data annotation, natural-language processing and decision support. BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org) is an open repository of biomedical ontologies that provides access via Web services and Web browsers to ontologies developed in OWL, RDF, OBO format and Protégé frames. BioPortal functionality includes the ability to browse, search and visualize ontologies. The Web interface also facilitates community-based participation in the evaluation and evolution of ontology content by providing features to add notes to ontology terms, mappings between terms and ontology reviews based on criteria such as usability, domain coverage, quality of content, and documentation and support. BioPortal also enables integrated search of biomedical data resources such as the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), ClinicalTrials.gov, and ArrayExpress, through the annotation and indexing of these resources with ontologies in BioPortal. Thus, BioPortal not only provides investigators, clinicians, and developers 'one-stop shopping' to programmatically access biomedical ontologies, but also provides support to integrate data from a variety of biomedical resources.
AB - Biomedical ontologies provide essential domain knowledge to drive data integration, information retrieval, data annotation, natural-language processing and decision support. BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org) is an open repository of biomedical ontologies that provides access via Web services and Web browsers to ontologies developed in OWL, RDF, OBO format and Protégé frames. BioPortal functionality includes the ability to browse, search and visualize ontologies. The Web interface also facilitates community-based participation in the evaluation and evolution of ontology content by providing features to add notes to ontology terms, mappings between terms and ontology reviews based on criteria such as usability, domain coverage, quality of content, and documentation and support. BioPortal also enables integrated search of biomedical data resources such as the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), ClinicalTrials.gov, and ArrayExpress, through the annotation and indexing of these resources with ontologies in BioPortal. Thus, BioPortal not only provides investigators, clinicians, and developers 'one-stop shopping' to programmatically access biomedical ontologies, but also provides support to integrate data from a variety of biomedical resources.
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U2 - 10.1093/nar/gkp440
DO - 10.1093/nar/gkp440
M3 - Article
C2 - 19483092
AN - SCOPUS:67849128700
SN - 0305-1048
VL - 37
SP - W170-W173
JO - Nucleic acids research
JF - Nucleic acids research
IS - SUPPL. 2
ER -