Category:NCBO Virtual Machine Image

The NCBO Virtual Machine Image contains a pre-installed, pre-configured version of commonly used NCBO software. The image was created using VMWare and is available for download from NCBO ADD_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_HERE.

The following software is included on the image:

• BioPortal Ontology Services (BioPortal Core)
• BioPortal Web User Interface (including ontology visualization, Flex widgets, Annotator and Resource Index UIs)
• BioPortal Admin (a UI for administering BioPortal Ontology Services)
• Annotator
• Resource Index

Please see below for how-to documentation for managing the software and running data population for Annotator and Resource Index.

Getting Started

• The default hostname for the machine is ncbobioportal
• Change default passwords
  • Operating System
    • Username: root
    • Password: changemeNOW
  • BioPortal Admin User
    • Username: admin
    • Password: changeme
• Add an ontology using the BioPortal Admin User here: http://ncbobioportal/ontologies/new
  • BioPortal Ontology Services will automatically process new ontologies every hour at 30 minutes past the hour. This processing includes:
    • Parsing any new, unparsed ontologies
    • Calculating a set of metrics for these ontologies
    • Indexing these ontologies for use with search
• Parsing, indexing, metrics calculation, and ontology deletion can all be manually triggered or re-triggered using the BioPortal Admin user interface, which is available here: http://ncbobioportal/bioportal_admin