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Welcome to the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) public wiki. This wiki provides user guides and technical documentation for software developed by NCBO.

Note that as the NCBO project funding has ended, documentation for some projects or project details (n.b., NCBO BioPortal details) may be out of date. Pease send email to the BioPortal Support List

Please visit our main site for more information about NCBO.

Software

To follow is a list of software developed and maintained by NCBO:

• BioPortal - A web-based application for accessing and sharing biomedical ontologies
• BioPortal REST API - A RESTful API to access BioPortal content
• BioPortal Virtual Appliance - Contains BioPortal and the BioPortal REST API, runs on Linux
• BioPortal SPARQL Endpoint - Access BioPortal content via SPARQL queries (obsolete)

Please refer to our release notes page for change logs.

Documentation

• BioPortal - get help with the user interface and instructions for commonly performed tasks
• BioPortal REST API - see a list of available endpoints with usage instructions
• BioPortal Virtual Appliance - read a getting started guide and installation instructions
• Using NCBO technologies in your project - get ideas for how to employ NCBO technologies in your website or application
• SKOS support - view the specifics of BioPortal's support for SKOS vocabularies
• BioPortal SPARQL Endpoint - read about programmatic submission of SPARQL queries and the named graph structure
• Developer documentation

Mail Support

• BioPortal Support List - sign up to see and request community support for BioPortal
• BioPortal mailman email archives - the usual mailman archive format for BioPortal support list
• BioPortal nabble email archives - BioPortal support email list archives in easier format to search and navigate

Ontology Development Projects

These are some of the ontology development projects that NCBO participated in:

• Biomedical Resource Ontology
• Translational Medicine Ontology
• NanoParticle Ontology
• Phenotypic Quality Ontology
• OBO Relations Ontology
• Common Anatomy Reference Ontology
• Cell Ontology
• Sequence Types and Features Ontology
• Disease Ontology, and other ontologies pertaining to diseases and disorders
• Ontology of Clinical Investigation