A Biomedical Ontology Repository and Platform Focused on Precision Medicine
Guo Jingwen, Yang Sheng, Shi Furen, Shao Chen, Zhang Lulu, Wang Heng*, Yang Xiaolin*
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
Abstract In the past decade, ontology has been widely used in biomedical data analysis, search, integration and reuse. As ontology itself is a specific type of data, the amount of ontologies has also increased rapidly. In order to promote the integration of precision medicine data sets and provide ontology resource service for domestic users, we constructed MedPortal, an ontology repository and platform. Reusing NCBO BioPortal technology, we constructed MedPortal software framework. We selected precision medicine-related ontologies and built MedPortal ontology repository. Further, we modified some original code in order that MedPortal could run smoothly in the new network environment. Now MedPortal ontology repository has been successfully constructed. So far, 42 biomedical ontologies have been imported into MedPortal, mappings among which have also been created. Several ontology services including term search, ontology mapping, and data annotation are provided through websites and REST API, accessible at: http://medportal.bmicc.cn. MedPortal will be of help to biomedical data integration.
Guo Jingwen,Yang Sheng,Shi Furen, et al. A Biomedical Ontology Repository and Platform Focused on Precision Medicine[J]. Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 36(5): 557-564.
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