Tools

National Center For Biomedical Ontology Tools


BioPortal    BioPortal 1.0

A public Web portal that provides access to the Center's repositories as well as open-source ontology management, query, and visualization tools
   Phenote    Phenote

A tool for annotating and storing biomedical phenotypes using terms from multiple ontologies
             
OBO Converter   OBO Converter

A tool for converting OBO format files into OWL files and vice-versa
       

NCBO Prototype Tools & Services


  Bioportal 2.0

BioPortal 2.0 will be released in July 2008. Alpha version available now
      Ontology-Based Annotator Web Service

Produces direct and semantically expanded annotations from raw text
                
OBR    Open Biomedical Resources

Annotation and indexing of biomedical data directly integrated with BioPortal 2.0. Users can locate biomedical data resources related to particular ontology concepts
   NCIT Query    Query Tissue Microarray Samples

A graphical interface to browse the sample collection in TMAD using the NCI thesaurus terms and their hierarchical organization
                
UMLS Query    UMLS-Query

Used to build applications for semi-automated sample annotation, terminology based browsers for tissue sample databases, and terminology research
          

External Tools


Jambalaya   Jambalaya

A Protégé plug-in for visualizing Protege, OWL, and RDFS ontologies and knowledge bases
   LexGrid    LexGrid

Support for a distributed network of lexical resources such as terminologies and ontologies
                
OBO-Edit    OBO Edit

A graph-based editor for OBO ontologies
   Prompt    Prompt

A set of tools for versioning, mapping, merging, and partitioning ontologies
                
Protege    Protégé

Domain-independent ontology editor and knowledge-acquisition platform
         
Ruby On Rails