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OntoCAT - an integrated programming toolkit for common ontology application tasks
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OntoCAT - an integrated programming toolkit for common ontology application tasks

  • Tomasz Adamusiak1,
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  • Morris Swertz2 &
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OntoCAT provides high level abstraction for interacting with ontology resources including local ontology files in standard OWL and OBO formats (via OWL API) and public ontology repositories: EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) and NCBO BioPortal. Each resource is wrapped behind easy to learn Java, Bioconductor/R and REST web service commands enabling reuse and integration of ontology software efforts despite variation in technologies.

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    Tomasz Adamusiak, Natalja Kurbatova & Helen Parkinson

  2. Genomics Coordination Center, Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen and Groningen Bioinformatics Center, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Morris Swertz

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Adamusiak, T., Kurbatova, N., Swertz, M. et al. OntoCAT - an integrated programming toolkit for common ontology application tasks. Nat Prec (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2011.6121.1

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Keywords

  • BOSC
  • BOSC2011
  • OntoCAT
  • ontology
  • OWL
  • obo
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