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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
National Center for Biomedical Ontology is pleased to announce the release of
several services and widgets that will enable users to include the NCBO
technologies on their own web sites and in their applications. Please see the
following page for details:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Using_NCBO_Technology_In_Your_Project">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Using_NCBO_Technology_In_Your_Project</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Specifically,
we have released:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ontology
Web Services: </span></b><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All the content that
the NCBO BioPortal uses (and more!) is available via REST services. You can use
the NCBO REST Services:</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• to access all
BioPortal ontologies, their different versions, and metadata for those versions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• to access
information about any ontology concept in BioPortal (its definition, synonyms,
and other properties)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• to search
across all ontologies in BioPortal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• to get
hierarchy information for BioPortal ontologies (such as parents, children, or
siblings of a class, roots or leaves of a class hierarchy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Annotator Web Service: </span></b><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A
service that identifies mentions of biomedical ontology concepts in text that
users submit. You can use the annotator service to tag automatically any item
of interest with terms from UMLS and BioPortal ontologies.</span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ontology
Widgets: </span></b><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Put elements of BioPortal,
custom-tailored for your ontology of interest, on your own Web site or in your
Web form. To add these widgets, you need only to copy simple HTML or Javascript
code to your own Web page (go to the "Ontology Widgets"
tab on the page for individual ontology details to get the code
pre-configured for the widgets using your ontology of interest). The main
kinds of widgets you get are:</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• <b>Term-selection
field on a form</b>: You can add a text field to your Web form that will let
users enter a term from a controlled vocabulary (e.g., terms from a single
ontology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• <b>Ontology
search widget</b>: You can add to your Web site a search box that searches a
specific BioPortal ontology. When the user selects the term of interest (with
the help of the look-ahead feature), he can jump to the BioPortal page for the
corresponding concept in BioPortal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• <b>Track
updates (RSS Feed widget)</b>: you can put a widget on your site that will have
a live feed of all the changes to your ontology of interest, such as uploads of
a new version, comments from other users, new mappings for concepts in your
ontology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• <b>Ontology
visualization widget</b>: You can put a widget on your Web site that visualizes
your entire ontology of interest, or some part of it, as on
the "Visualize" tab in BioPortal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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