<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><big><small>BioPortal 2.3.1 was released to production Monday, 3/15/10. The following new features were added in this release.</small><br><b><br>New Features<br></b></big><ul><li><b>Get all terms service<br></b></li><ul><li>The 'Get all terms' service will be changing to support speedier and more complete term retrieval. To support this, several changes to the response XML and service signature are being made. Please see the following notes to update your existing applications to support these changes.<br></li><li>Documentation:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_REST_services#Changes_to_the_Get_all_terms_service">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_REST_services#Changes_to_the_Get_all_terms_service</a></li></ul><li><b>Instance service</b></li><ul><li>A new service has been added to retrieve information about an instance and its property/value pairs.</li><li>Documentation:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_REST_services#Instance_Services">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_REST_services#Instance_Services</a></li></ul><li><b>View Extraction</b></li><ul><li>The View Extraction service allows users to create branches of an ontology starting at a given concept. The service returns an OWL file that contains the branch.<br></li><li>Documentation: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/View_Extraction">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/View_Extraction</a></li></ul><li><b>Logging Service</b></li><ul><li>Calls can now be made to the logging service remotely to track how users are interacting with various BioPortal interfaces (including the BioPortal UI, Search, Annotator, and Resource Index). Logging will be enabled on the BioPortal UI in the next few days.</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div><div>The BioPortal Team</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>