Ontology Lookup Service
Ontology Lookup Service provides centralized access to publicly available biomedical ontologies to support consistent ontology queries, controlled-vocabulary integration, and annotation interoperability for biomedical data.
Key Features:
- Centralized ontology integration: Integrates publicly available biomedical ontologies into a single repository for unified term access and retrieval.
- Regular updates: Maintains modified ontologies with daily updates to keep ontology content current.
- Auto-completion and advanced querying: Provides auto-completion and advanced query capabilities for precise term lookup and ontology queries.
- Programmatic integration: Exposes a programmatic interface via SOAP with a WSDL descriptor to enable external application integration.
Scientific Applications:
- Ontology term search and retrieval: Enables efficient discovery and retrieval of ontology terms for biomedical research.
- Data annotation: Supports annotation of biomedical data using controlled vocabularies drawn from integrated ontologies.
- Interoperability enhancement: Facilitates interoperability between databases and data-entry systems by standardizing vocabulary use.
Methodology:
Employs a robust data model and loading mechanisms to capture comprehensive annotations from source ontology data.
Topics
Details
- License:
- Apache-2.0
- Maturity:
- Mature
- Tool Type:
- api, web application
- Operating Systems:
- Linux, Windows, Mac
- Programming Languages:
- JavaScript, Java
- Added:
- 8/26/2016
- Last Updated:
- 11/25/2024
Operations
Data Inputs & Outputs
ID mapping
Inputs
Outputs
Publications
Côté RG, Jones P, Apweiler R, Hermjakob H. The Ontology Lookup Service, a lightweight cross-platform tool for controlled vocabulary queries. BMC Bioinformatics. 2006;7(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-97. PMID:16507094. PMCID:PMC1420335.
Cote RG, Jones P, Martens L, Apweiler R, Hermjakob H. The Ontology Lookup Service: more data and better tools for controlled vocabulary queries. Nucleic Acids Research. 2008;36(Web Server):W372-W376. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn252. PMID:18467421. PMCID:PMC2447739.
Cote R, Reisinger F, Martens L, Barsnes H, Vizcaino JA, Hermjakob H. The Ontology Lookup Service: bigger and better. Nucleic Acids Research. 2010;38(Web Server):W155-W160. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq331. PMID:20460452. PMCID:PMC2896109.