BioPortal is an open repository of biomedical ontologies that provides access via Web services and Web browsers to ontologies developed in OWL, RDF, OBO format and Protégé frames. BioPortal functionality includes the ability to browse, search and visualize ontologies.

Prefix

bioportal

Keywords

life science ontology ontology and terminology

Links

Homepage Repository

Contact

John Graybeal   0000-0001-6875-5360

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioPortal should match this regular expression:
^(\d+)|(\w+)$

Example Local Unique Identifiers

1046   Resolve
SEPIO   Resolve
pseudo   Resolve
FBBi   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioPortal should match this regular expression:
^bioportal:(\d+)|(\w+)$

Example CURIEs

bioportal:1046
bioportal:SEPIO
bioportal:pseudo
bioportal:FBBi

Publications

• 2011 BioPortal: enhanced functionality via new Web services from the National Center for Biomedical Ontology to access and use ontologies in software applications
• 2009 BioPortal: ontologies and integrated data resources at the click of a mouse

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 1046 is used to demonstrate the providers available for BioPortal. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.