NCBO Web Services and the Development of Semantic Applications

Content

• Introduction to REST Web services
• NCBO BioPortal
• NCBO REST Web services
  • Ontology Web services - Search, Traverse, Download
  • View Extraction Web service - Subset
  • Notes Web service - Propose Terms, Comment
  • Mapping Web services - Create, Upload, Download
  • Widgets - Tree view, Auto-complete, Graph view
  • Annotation - Ontology Term recognition
  • Data Access - Fetch ontology-indexed data
• BioPortal SPARQL Endpoint - Access Ontologies via SPARQL

What You Need to Participate

• BioPortal API Key - get your API Key by registering for an account on BioPortal
• Computer with Internet connection
• Software editor of your choice
• Sample code will be demonstrated in both Java and Perl https://bmir-gforge.stanford.edu/gf/project/client_examples/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2F
• Nice to Have
  • Firefox HTTP Resource Test Plugin
  • Firefox API Key Add-on
  • Some experience with parsing XML
    • Java - Sax/DOM
    • Perl - LibXML

Slides

• Download slides - to be posted

NCBO Sample Code Cookbook

• Visit the Sample Code Cookbook to see ontology-based uses cases and solutions using the NCBO Web services
• Add your own use case!

Keep in Touch

• NCBO Announce mailing list: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioportal-announce
  • Software release announcements
• Software support: NCBO User Group
  • Submit bug and feature requests
• Follow NCBO on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/bioontology
• "Like" NCBO on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/bioontology
• Join in Discussions on LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/ncbo-group

Back to Dissemination/Outreach Main Wiki page

http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Dissemination_Wiki