| Paper about ONTO-PERL in Bioinformatics |
| Wednesday, 06 February 2008 15:47 |
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ONTO-PERL: An API supporting the development and analysis of bio-ontologies. E. Antezana; M. Egana; B. De Baets; M. Kuiper; V. Mironov. Bioinformatics 2008; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn042 Motivation: Many biomedical ontologies use OBO or OWL as knowledge representation language. The rapid increase of such ontologies calls for adequate tools to facilitate their use. In particular, there is a pressing need to programmatically deal with such ontologies in many applications, including data integration, text mining, as well as semantic applications supporting translational research. Results: We present an Application Programming Interface (API) called ONTO-PERL. This API significantly extends the repertoire of available tools supporting the development and analysis of bioontologies. Availability: The source code as well as sample usage scripts can be found at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ONTO-PERL/. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |