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National Center for Biomedical Ontology is pleased to announce the release of </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">BioPortal</font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> 3.0</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">. New features include updates to the Web interface and Web
services:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Web interface updates</font></li><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Browse
page now displays ontology features, e.g. size of the ontology, number of notes
added to the ontology, number of projects that use the ontology, and number of
reviews of the ontology</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">New
ontology summary details page highlights the ontology metrics, reviews, projects,
and derived views of the ontology</font></li></ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Security Framework, part 1</font></li><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Added
apikey parameter to all Web services. <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF2500"><i>The apikey parameter is optional until June 15, 2011, after this time the apikey parameter will be required for usage of the Web services. </i></font>Login to
BioPortal to get your API key.</font></li></ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Provisional Term Web service</font></li><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">New
term proposals now receive a provisional term id</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Additional
Web services are now available for submitting provisional terms. For more
details, see: </font><a href="http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_Provisional_Terms"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/BioPortal_Provisional_Terms</font></a></li></ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Form auto-complete Widget</font></li><ul><li><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Option
to include term definition in display</font></li></ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Resource Index</font></li><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Data
indexed with new ontologies from BioPortal</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">PubMed data now available for abstracts published in 2010 </font></li></ul></ul></p></font></p><br><div>
<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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