Technology: Data Access Using Ontologies

NCBO aids investigators in biomedical research by developing open source tools to enhance access to and analysis of biomedical data and knowledge. BioPortal – a Web-based application and sharing biomedical ontologies – is just one of many tools that NCBO offers.
Tools
NCBO Resource Index
Automated ontology-based annotation and indexing biomedical data
Biositemaps Editor
A Web-based authoring tool to generate a Biositemaps file that contains a description on an institution’s or laboratory’s biomedical resources
Bio-Mixer
Prototype in Research - Web-based environment that supports flexible exploration of biomedical ontologies
CTSearch
Software toolkit that extracts information from clinical documents using ontologies, and improving ontologies using clinical documents
CTeXplorer
Support for distributed network of lexical resources such as terminologies and ontologies
QueryTissueMicro
Graphical interface to browse the sample collection in TMAD using NCI thesaurus terms and hierachical organization 
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Resource Discovery System
Federated, inter-institutional project to facilitate resource discovery
Web Services
NCBO Resource Index
Automated ontology-based annotation and indexing biomedical data