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National Center for Biomedical Ontology is pleased to announce the release of <b>BioPortal</b><b> 2.6.4</b>. New features include additional Web services and Web
interface enhancements:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Mapping Web services</li><ul><li>Access
to ontology term mappings, including UMLS, OBO DbXref, and LOOM mappings ( <a href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_Mappings_Service">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_Mappings_Service</a> ) </li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(249, 38, 18); "><b>*** Please note, the
prototype Mapping Web service will be removed March 23</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(249, 38, 18); "> </span></li></ul><li>RDF Download Web service</li><ul><li>Access
any BioPortal ontology in RDF ( <a href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services#RDF_Term_Service">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services#RDF_Term_Service</a> and <a href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services#RDF_Download_Service">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services#RDF_Download_Service</a> )</li></ul><li>Notes</li><ul><li>Ability
to archive Notes, e.g. accepted term proposals, and filter from display</li></ul><li>Annotator</li><ul><li>Updated ontology content</li><li>Offsets corrected for
non-ASCII characters</li><li>Link to Annotator Web
interface using parameters</li></ul><li>Web interface enhancements</li><ul><li>Display of ontology
development status</li><li>Hyperlinks on term details
page</li><li>Ability to add comments on Mappings</li></ul></ul></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div>Trish Whetzel, PhD</div><div>Outreach Coordinator</div><div>The National Center for Biomedical Ontology</div><div>Ph: 650-721-2378</div><div><a href="mailto:whetzel@stanford.edu">whetzel@stanford.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://www.bioontology.org">http://www.bioontology.org</a></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></span>
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