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 @bioontology

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 6 mappings to external registries for bioportal with 3 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE bioportal:1046 is used to demonstrate the provides available for bioportal. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.