BioPortal Release Notes

BioPortal Release 3.1

New features include updates to the Web interface and Web services:

Support for loading OWL 2 ontologies
Security Framework, part 2 - The apikey parameter is now required for all Web services. Login to BioPortal to get your API Key.
Browsing of ontologies that contain large numbers of sibling terms
Icons for is_a and part_of are displayed for OBO format ontologies
Display of the “occurs_in” relationship used in the Extended version of the Gene Ontology

Bug Fix

Added informative error message when incompatible parameter values are used in the Annotator Web service and updated Perl client to capture this error response

(Release date July 8, 2011)

New features include updates to the Web interface and Web services:

Web interface updates
Browse page now displays ontology features, e.g. size of the ontology, number of notes added to the ontology, number of projects that use the ontology, and number of reviews of the ontology
New ontology summary details page highlights the ontology metrics, reviews, projects, and derived views of the ontology
Security Framework, part 1 - Added apikey parameter to all Web services. The apikey parameter is optional until June 15, 2011, after this time the apikey parameter will be required for usage of the Web services. Login to BioPortal to get your API key.
Provisional Term Web service - New term proposals now receive a provisional term id. Additional Web services are now available for submitting provisional terms. For more details, see: http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_Provisional_Terms
Form auto-complete Widget - Option to include term definition in display
Resource Index
- Data indexed with new ontologies from BioPortal
- PubMed data now available for abstracts published in 2010

(Release date May 19, 2011)

New features include additional Web services and Web interface enhancements:

Mapping Web services - Access to ontology term mappings, including UMLS, OBO DbXref, and LOOM mappings ( http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_Mappings_Service ) Please note, the prototype Mapping Web service will be removed March 23
RDF Download Web service - Access any BioPortal ontology in RDF ( http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services#RDF_Term_Service and http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services#RDF_Download_Service )
Notes - Ability to archive Notes, e.g. accepted term proposals, and filter from display
Annotator
- Updated ontology content
- Offsets corrected for non-ASCII characters
- Link to Annotator Web interface using parameters
- Web interface enhancements
Display of ontology development status
Hyperlinks on term details page
Ability to add comments on Mappings

(Release date February 2011)