Difference between revisions of "Ontology Change Requests"

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* [https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MONDO Mondo Disease Ontology]
 
* [https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MONDO Mondo Disease Ontology]
 
* [https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/UBERON Uber Anatomy Ontology]
 
* [https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/UBERON Uber Anatomy Ontology]
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Change requests are mirrored as GitHub issues in the repository where the ontology is maintained. BioPortal supports several types of change requests including:
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* Adding synonyms
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* Removing synonyms
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* Marking a class obsolete
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* Renaming a class
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... with support for more types of changes to come.

Revision as of 16:25, 22 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 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. BioPortal supports several types of change requests including:

  • Adding synonyms
  • Removing synonyms
  • Marking a class obsolete
  • Renaming a class

... with support for more types of changes to come.