Showing papers by "Simon Jupp published in 2015"

A new Ontology Lookup Service at EMBL-EBI.

Abstract: The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) hosted at the EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute has been providing ontology search and visualisation services for over ten years. In this time the range and diversity of ontologies has changed dramatically. One of the major shifts has been the increasing use of the W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) for representing biomedical ontologies. The OLS has been reengineered in order to accommodate the OWL standard and provide a wider range of ontology-based services to the community.

Collaborative Ontology Development Using the Webulous Architecture and Google App.

Abstract: Authoring bio-ontologies is a task that traditionally requires contributions from both a domain expert and an ontology engineer. That many domain experts are not also experts in ontology design or in languages as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a significant bottleneck in the development process, especially as requests typically outnumber the bandwidth of a single ontology developer, which impacts both ontology development and the ability to semantically describe data typically seen in the Semantic Web. We present the Webulous architecture, a server-client application for developing ontologies based on customisable client interfaces. We also describe the Webulous Google App, a client to Webulous that allows collaborative, online editing of Google Spreadsheets. These spreadsheets can be pre-populated with parts of ontologies loaded from resources such as BioPortal and can be rapidly turned into new ontology terms using behind the scene templates which automatically axiomatise cells in a row to create rich and consistent ontology classes.