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The software tools on this page are either created by, or in affiliation with, the NCBO.

External tools are examples of tools that use NCBO technologies.

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National Center For Biomedical Ontology Tools

	BioPortal A Web-based application for accessing and sharing biomedical ontologies.
	OBO Converter A Tab plugin for Protégé to convert OBO format files into OWL files and vice-versa
	OWL Converter A plugin for OBOEdit to convert OBO format files into OWL files
	Phenote A tool for annotating and storing biomedical phenotypes using terms from multiple ontologies
	UMLS-Query Used to build applications for semi-automated sample annotation, terminology based browsers for tissue sample databases, and terminology research

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NCBO Prototype Tools

	CogZ A user support plugin for the Prompt ontology management suite. It provides cognitive support during the mapping process.
	CTeXplorer A tool for searching related sets of annotated clinical trial information
	CTSearch Combines multiple synchronized tag clouds to improve the refinement of queries and the comparison of results. Searches trials from ClinicalTrials.gov.
	ECG Gadget A tool that integrates electrocardiogram (ECG) storage & analysis workflows with ECG visualization/annotation - Click the screenshot to see a demo!
	Ontology Development & Information Extraction - ODIE A software toolkit that extracts information from clinical documents using ontologies, and improves ontologies using clinical documents. - Click the screenshot to see a demo!
	Ontology Recommender Recommends ontologies to use for annotation based on the descriptions of your datasets.
	PQViz A search interface for Protege ontologies. The results are displayed visually as a graph.
	PURL Server The PURL Server enables identification and sharing of persistent URLs for biomedical resources and is dedicated for the use of thos in the biomedical communities.
	Query Tissue Microarray Samples A graphical interface to browse the sample collection in TMAD using the NCI thesaurus terms and their hierarchical organization

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External Tools

	BioLit BioLit extracts database identifiers and rich metadata from open access articles in the life sciences and integrates that information with existing biological databases. BioLit
	CodePlex: Word Add-In For Ontology Recognition Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 that enables the annotation of Word documents based on terms that appear in Ontologies. CodePlex: Word Add-In For Ontology Recognition
	ISAcreator ISAcreator is a standalone Java application which enables users to structure experimental metadata in ISA-TAB formats using ontologies served by OLS and BioPortal. ISAcreator
	Jambalaya A Protégé plug-in for visualizing Protege, OWL, and RDFS ontologies and knowledge bases - Click the screenshot to see a demo! Jambalaya
	Jinx Volume segmentation and annotation tool for 3D data sets. Jinx
	LexGrid Support for a distributed network of lexical resources such as terminologies and ontologies. LexGrid
	OBO-Edit A graph-based editor for OBO ontologies. OBO-Edit
	PROMPT A set of tools for versioning, mapping, merging, and partitioning ontologies. PROMPT
	Protégé Open source ontology editor and knowledge-base platform. Protégé

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