BioPortal REST services

This page documents the signatures for NCBO (and, more specifically, BioPortal) REST services. This list may not be exhaustive.

Note: Signatures for BioPoral services will change in January 2009. We will update this page when this change occurs.

The prefix for all service URLs in the table below is http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest

List all the latest version of ontologies

• Signature: ./ontologies
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/ontologies

Find a specific ontology based on a version id

• Signature: ./ontologies/{ontology version id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/ontologies/39002

Find all versions of an ontology form a virtual ontology id

• Signature:./virtual/{virtual ontology id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/virtual/1104

Download an ontology file

• Description: Download the file (.obo, .owl) corresponding to the given ontology version ID.
• Signature: ./ontologies/download/{ontology version id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/ontologies/download/39002

Get versions of an ontology id

• Signature: ./ontologies/version/{ontology id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/ontologies/version/1104

Get latest version of an ontology id

• Signature: ./virtual/{ontology_id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/virtual/1104

Get concept id

• Signature: ./concepts/{ontology version id}/{concept id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/concepts/39002/BRO:Resource

Get all root concepts for an ontology id

• Signature: ./concepts/{ontology version id}/root
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/concepts/39002/root

Search for concepts id

• Signature: ./search/concepts/{query>?ontologies={ids}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/search/concepts/cancer?ontologies=13578,38312

Get concept for latest ontology version id

• Signature: ./virtual/{ontology id}/{concept id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/virtual/1104/BRO:Resource

List all ontology categories id

• Signature: ./categories
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/rest/categories