BioPortal REST services

This page documents the signatures for NCBO (and, more specifically, BioPortal) REST services. This list may not be exhaustive.

Note: Signatures for BioPortal services have changed in BioPortal 2.0.4 release on January 13th, 2009. This page has the new service URLs. If you have any questions, please contact BioPortal Support.

The prefix for all service URLs in the table below is http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/

List all the latest version of ontologies

• Signature: ./ontologies
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/ontologies

Find a specific ontology based on a version id

• Signature: ./ontologies/{ontology version id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/ontologies/39002

Find all versions of an ontology form a virtual ontology id

• Signature:./virtual/{virtual ontology id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/virtual/1104

Download an ontology file

• Description: Download the file (.obo, .owl) corresponding to the given ontology version ID.
• Signature: ./ontologies/download/{ontology version id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/ontologies/download/39002

Get version ids based on a virtual ontology id

• Signature: ./ontologies/versions/{ontology id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/ontologies/versions/1104

Get latest version of an ontology id

• Signature: ./virtual/{ontology_id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/virtual/1104

Get concept id

• Signature: ./concepts/{ontology version id}/{concept id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/concepts/39002/BRO:Resource

Get all root concepts for an ontology id

• Signature: ./concepts/{ontology version id}/root
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/concepts/39002/root

Search for concepts id

• Signature: ./search/concepts/{query>?ontologies={ids}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/concepts/cancer?ontologies=13578,38312

Get concept for latest ontology version id

• Signature: ./virtual/{ontology id}/{concept id}
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/virtual/1104/BRO:Resource

Search BioPortal

• Signature: ./search/{query}[?{optional args}]
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/Gene
• You can use multiple query terms, separated by a space, for example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/lung disease
• Optional arguments:
  • ontologyids=<ontologyid>,<ontologyid>… - limits the search to specific ontologies (default: all ontologies)
  • isexactmatch=[1/0] – match the entire concept name (default: 0)
  • includeproperties=[1/0] – include attributes in the search (default: 0)
  • pagesize=<pagesize> - the number of results to display in a single request (default: all)
  • pagenum=<pagenum> - the page number to display (pages are calculated using <total results>/<pagesize>) (default: 1)
  • Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/software/?ontologyid=39002&isexactmatch=1

List all ontology categories id

• Signature: ./categories
• Example: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/categories