SWAT4LS Tutorial

Web Services and Development of Semantic Applications

• Presented by Trish Whetzel at the SWAT4LS 2011 Conference

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
• Nice to Have
  • Firefox HTTP Resource Test Plugin
  • API Key Plugin
  • Some experience with parsing XML
    • Java - Sax/DOM
    • Perl - LibXML

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

Slides

• Slides will be posted after the Tutorial

NCBO Sample Code Cookbook

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

NCBO Users

• Email NCBO Users to contact other users and our NCBO support staff with your questions