Technology: Ontology Development

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.
Ontology Editors and Plug-ins
 
EDITOR: Protégé
Open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework
 
EDITOR: Web-Protégé
Open source, lightweight, web-based ontology editor
PLUG-IN: OBO Converter
Tab plug-in for Protégé to convert OBO format files into OWL files and vice versa
PLUG-IN: BioPortal Reference
Protégé plug-in. Enables user to reference individual classes from ontologies in BioPortal
PLUG-IN: DIaMOND
Protégé plug-in. Degree of Interest Modeling for Ontology Navigation and Development
PLUG-IN: Jambalaya
Protégé plug-in for visualizing Protégé, OWL, and RDFS ontologies and knowledge bases
PLUG-IN: PQViz
Search interface for Protégé ontologies. The results are displayed visually as a graph
PLUG-IN: PROMPT
Protégé plug-in which supports managment of mulitple ontologies
PLUG-IN: CogZ
Plug-in for PROMPT ontology management suite
EDITOR: NCBO PURL Server
Enables identification and sharing of persistent URLSs for biomedical resources