WebProtégé: a collaborative Web-based platform for editing biomedical ontologies

WebProtégé is an open-source Web application for editing OWL 2 ontologies. It contains several features to aid collaboration, including support for the discussion of issues, change notification and revision-based change tracking. WebProtégé also features a simple user interface, which is geared towa...

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Published in:	Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) Vol. 30; no. 16; pp. 2384 - 2385
Main Authors:	Horridge, Matthew, Tudorache, Tania, Nuylas, Csongor, Vendetti, Jennifer, Noy, Natalya F, Musen, Mark A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Oxford University Press 15-08-2014
Subjects:	Applications Notes Biological Ontologies Cooperative Behavior Internet Software
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Summary:	WebProtégé is an open-source Web application for editing OWL 2 ontologies. It contains several features to aid collaboration, including support for the discussion of issues, change notification and revision-based change tracking. WebProtégé also features a simple user interface, which is geared towards editing the kinds of class descriptions and annotations that are prevalent throughout biomedical ontologies. Moreover, it is possible to configure the user interface using views that are optimized for editing Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) class descriptions and metadata. Some of these views are shown in the Supplementary Material and can be seen in WebProtégé itself by configuring the project as an OBO project. WebProtégé is freely available for use on the Web at http://webprotege.stanford.edu. It is implemented in Java and JavaScript using the OWL API and the Google Web Toolkit. All major browsers are supported. For users who do not wish to host their ontologies on the Stanford servers, WebProtégé is available as a Web app that can be run locally using a Servlet container such as Tomcat. Binaries, source code and documentation are available under an open-source license at http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/WebProtege.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Associate Editor: John Hancock
ISSN:	1367-4803 1367-4811
DOI:	10.1093/bioinformatics/btu256