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If you want to enable BioPortal's change request functionality for your ontology, please post a request on the [mailto:contact@bioportal.com BioPortal support] list. Include your ontology acronym in BioPortal, e.g., "MONDO", and the URL of the GitHub repository where your ontology is maintained, e.g., https://github.com/monarch-initiative/mondo.
 
If you want to enable BioPortal's change request functionality for your ontology, please post a request on the [mailto:contact@bioportal.com BioPortal support] list. Include your ontology acronym in BioPortal, e.g., "MONDO", and the URL of the GitHub repository where your ontology is maintained, e.g., https://github.com/monarch-initiative/mondo.
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== Request a change ==
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You must be logged in to request changes in BioPortal. If you don't have an account, you can create one here: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/accounts/new.
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Once logged in, navigate to your ontology in BioPortal, and click on the Classes tab.

Latest revision as of 16:29, 31 May 2024

BioPortal allows users to request changes or extensions to an ontology when the ontology source file is maintained in GitHub. The change request functionality is manually enabled on a per-ontology basis, and there are currently four ontologies in our repository for which change requests are enabled:

Change requests are mirrored as GitHub issues in the repository where the ontology is maintained.

Supported change types

BioPortal supports several types of change requests including:

  • Adding a synonym to a class
  • Removing a synonym from a class
  • Marking a class as obsolete
  • Renaming a class

Support for more types of changes are in the works including, adding and removing definitions, adding classes, and deleting classes to name a few.

All of the change types that BioPortal supports are taken from the Knowledge Graph Change Language, a formal model for describing ontology change operations.

Enable change requests for your ontology

If you want to enable BioPortal's change request functionality for your ontology, please post a request on the BioPortal support list. Include your ontology acronym in BioPortal, e.g., "MONDO", and the URL of the GitHub repository where your ontology is maintained, e.g., https://github.com/monarch-initiative/mondo.

Request a change

You must be logged in to request changes in BioPortal. If you don't have an account, you can create one here: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/accounts/new.

Once logged in, navigate to your ontology in BioPortal, and click on the Classes tab.