SADI is a framework to create Semantic Web services using OWL classes as service inputs and outputs

Christopher Baker, Melanie Courtot, Jose Cruz-Toledo, Michel Dumontier, Steve Etlinger, Nichealla Keath, Artjom Klein, Luke McCarthy, Silvane Paixao, Ben Vandervalk, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Mark Wilkinson

The Bio2RDF project transforms silos of life science data into a globally distributed network of linked data for biological knowledge discovery.

Michel Dumontier, Peter Ansell, Francois Belleau, Allison Callahan, Jacques Corbeil, Jose Cruz-Toledo, Alex De Leon, Steve Etlinger, James Hogan, Nichealla Keath, Jean Morissette, Marc-Alexandre Nolin, Nicole Tourigny, Philippe Rigault and,  Paul Roe

High level abstraction API (Java/REST/R) for interacting with ontology resources including local ontology files in standard OWL and OBO formats (via OWL API) and public ontology repositories: EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) and NCBO BioPortal.

Tomasz Adamusiak, Helen Parkinson, Natalja Kurbatova, Misha Kapushesky, Morris Swertz

OntoMaton is a google spreadsheet application allowing for ontology search and tagging directly within google spreadsheets. More information can be found here: https://github.com/ISA-tools/OntoMaton

ISA team

The G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) ontology (http://www.bioassayontology.org/bao_gpcr) describes pharmacology, biochemistry and physiology of these important and therapeutically promising class of academic and pharmaceutical research targets. Incorporation and comparison of various small molecule screening data sets, such as those deposited in PubChem, ChEMBL, KEGG, PDSP, and/or IUPHAR databases, requires a formalized electronic organization system. In order to bridge the gap between the overflow of HTS data and the bottleneck of integrated analysis tools, herein, we provide the first comprehensive GPCR ontology. The development and utility of GPCR ontology was based on previously developed BioAssay Ontology (BAO). The GPCR ontology contains information about biochemical, pharmacological, and functional properties of individual GPCRs as well as GPCR-selective ligands inclusive of their HTS screening results and other records. This provides the first all-inclusive GPCR ontology with all available data to model the relationship between the GPCR binding sites and their physiologic and pharmacologic role in physiology via small molecule chemical structures. We developed this system using emerging semantic technologies, by leveraging existing and descriptive domain level ontologies.

Przydzial M, Bhhatarai B, Koleti A, Schurer S.