Ontology Change Requests

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:

• Environment Ontology
• Gene Ontology
• Mondo Disease Ontology
• Uber Anatomy Ontology

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.