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Welcome to the NCBO Public WIKI. This WIKI provides information about collaborative ontology development efforts, dissemination events conducted by the NCBO and publically shared materials from the NCBO. Please visit our Main Site for more information and materials.

NCBO Links	Shared Materials	NCBC Links
Home page	Public Requirements	Home page of National Centers for Biomedical Computing
FAQ	Shared Materials	NCBC Software and Data Integration Working Group (SDIWG) and Centers Discussion
Dissemination
News, Events and Publications	Evaluation Activities	NCBC Scientific Ontologies Working Group

Software

• NCBO BioPortal - Home page for BioPortal Web site
• NCBO BioPortal SPARQL Endpoint - Access BioPortal via SPARQL queries
• BioPortal Virtual Appliance - Contains BioPortal, Annotator, and Resource Index.
• BioPortal Software Release Announcements
• NCBO-OOR Development - Documentation on how the Open Ontology Repository community can customize and advance BioPortal capabilities.

User Support Documentation

• BioPortal Help - General BioPortal help documentation.
• Using NCBO Technology in Your Project - Documentation on how to use NCBO Technology in your project

Technical Documentation

• NCBO REST Web services - Listing of all NCBO web services with usage documentation
• Ontology Subset Extraction Web service - Documentation on how to extract subtree views from ontologies
• Term Mappings Web service - Documentation & information about accessing term mapping data
• Term Proposal Web service - Documentation & information about posting and accessing comments and new term proposals
• Annotator Web service - Documentation & information about the NCBO Annotator
• Ontology Recommender Web service - Documentation & information about the NCBO Ontology Recommender
• Resource Index - Documentation & information about the annotation-based NCBO biomedical Resources Index
• BioPortal SPARQL Endpoint - BioPortal SPARQL documentation
• BioPortal UI URLs - Documentation on how to link back to BioPortal UI pages
• Code samples - Sample code for common tasks with BioPortal Web services
• BioPortal Virtual Appliance - Contains BioPortal, Annotator, and Resource Index.
• Retired -> See BioPortal REST services for access to UMLS content. UMLS_REST_Services - Documentation on how to use our prototype UMLS services (NetKernel)

Ontology Development Projects

Below are links for ontology development projects that NCBO is involved in.

• BRO:Main_Page - Biomedical Resource Ontology
• TMO: - Translational Medicine Ontology
• NPO:Main_Page - NanoParticle Ontology
• PATO:Main_Page - An ontology of phenotypic qualities
• RO:Main_Page - OBO Relations ontology
• CARO:Main_Page - Reference anatomical ontology
• CL:Main_Page - OBO Cell ontology
• SO:Main_Page - Sequence Ontology
• Disease:Main_Page - Disease Ontology, and other ontologies pertaining to diseases and disorders
• OCI:Main_Page - Ontology of Clinical Investigation

Research projects and Prototypes

• RDF Triple Stores - Notes, learning and how-tos regarding uploading data to various triple stores (Nipun Bhatia)
• Path to Root - Project for consuming the path to root and other OBS rest services (Nipun Bhatia)
• PURL Server - Instructions on how to set-up a PURL server and create Master-Slave architecture for redundancy (Nipun Bhatia)
• Annotation Summarizer - Project utilizing OBS REST services to derive information from datasets referencing ontologies in BioPortal (Rob Tirrell)
• Lexicon Builder - Project for creating a service that allows building of custom lexicons from bioportal ontologies. (Gautam Parai)
• Medline Analysis - Project for applying natural language processing methods on Medline to analyze the frequency and syntactic type distribution of ontology terms. (Rong Xu)
• MetaMap Installation - Project to install a custom MetaMap using the NCBO data in order to integrate it in the Annotator Web service workflow. (Tejaswi Tenneti)