ICTV Ontology API

ICTV Ontology API The ICTV Ontology API is a structured, machine‑readable interface that exposes the complete ICTV virus taxonomy as an OWL ontology. It provides programmatic access to official virus taxa, their hierarchical relationships, synonyms, historical names, and metadata, enabling automated reasoning, name resolution, and integration of ICTV taxonomy into bioinformatics tools and databases. Key capabilities include access to the full taxonomy (realms to species), querying taxon relationships, retrieving release and status metadata, supporting OWL/RDF reasoning workflows, and integration with tools such as the ICTV Taxon Resolver (bio.tools/ictv_taxon_resolver), which relies on the API for taxon name resolution. Citation: Lieutaud et al., 2026, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.16.732600.