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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>We are pleased to announce the release of <b>BioPortal 3.6</b>. This was mostly a bug-fix release but there was one major new feature:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Created “alternate entry points” for BioPortal. These URL’s limit the ontologies that are visible in BioPortal, allowing users to focus on a shared, smaller set of ontologies. The entry points which are currently available are: <span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='color:red'>*</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></li><ul type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>OBO-Foundry:</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="http://obo-foundry.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://obo-foundry.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Unified Medical Language Systems: <a href="http://umls.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://umls.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid: <a href="http://cabig.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://cabig.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Clinical and Translational Science Awards: <a href="http://ctsa.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://ctsa.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>CTSA Health Ontology Mapper: <a href="http://ctsa-hom.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://ctsa-hom.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Proteomics Standards Initiative: <a href="http://psi.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://psi.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>WHO Family of International Classifications: <a href="http://who-fic.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://who-fic.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Consultative Group on Intl Agricultural Research: <a href="http://cgiar.bioportal.bioontology.org">http://cgiar.bioportal.bioontology.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Please contact us on the support mailing list if you would like us to configure an entry point for another set of ontologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Major Updates and Fixes<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Updated the ontologies used by the Annotator Web Services. Previously the ontology versions used by Annotator were out of date by several months and new ontologies were not available at all for annotation. <span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='color:red'>*</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Improved the reliability and robustness of the parsing of OWL 2 ontologies <span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='color:red'>*</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:red'>*</span></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#FF2500'> </span></b></span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>This item was requested via the <a href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioontology-support">User Support mailing list</a> and the <a href="http://www.bioontology.org/BioPortal-user-group">NCBO User Group</a>. Thank you for your comments and suggestions!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>