NCBO prototype services

Contact: jonquet@stanford.edu

 

NCBO Biomedical Resource Index service (formerly OBR)

To annotate some biomedical resources content to identify the biomedical concepts to which they relate and provide the annotations

Please refer to the NCBO wiki now: http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Resource_Index

NCBO Annotator service (formerly OBA)

To automatically process a piece of data text to annotate it with relevant ontology concepts and return the annotations

Please refer to the NCBO wiki now: http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Annotator_Web_service

Ontology recommender service

To automatically recommend an ontology to use for semantic annotations

Please refer to the NCBO wiki now: http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Ontology_Recommender_Web_service

Hierarchy & other ontology services (formerly OBS)

The hierarchy services have been released in April 2009: Please refer to the NCBO wiki now: http://bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_REST_services#Hierarchy_Services. Please use those services.
You can test them here: http://rest.bioontology.org/test_obs.html

The rest of the ontology services prototypes are still described hereafter:

February 2009 - New prototype that should be released in April 2009. http://ncbo-obs-stage1:8080/test_obs.html.

October 2008 - The first prototype (v1) has been released for testing and evaluation. Please check it out: http://obs.bioontology.org/obs/OBS_v1_rest.html

Ontology Access package

Java API here.

Version 08-12-04 : OntologyAccess081204.jar
Compliant with BioPortal 2.0

Version 09-01-08 : OntologyAccess090108.jar
Compliant with BioPortal 2.0.3. Note the string to concepts mapping function have not been updated for BioPortalAccessTool. To be done soon.

Version 09-04-02 : OntologyAccess090402.jar
Compliant with BioPortal 2.0.4. With reimplementation of the search (string to concepts mapping function) and synonyms feature for OWL ontologies.

Version 09-09-02 : OntologyAccess090902.jar
Some small changes.

Technical documentation

http://obs.bioontology.org/docs/

Other links:

https://bmir-gforge.stanford.edu/gf/project/obs