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

A suite of tools for the management and sharing of Systems Biology resources, such as data, models, SOPs and publications

Stuart Owen, Katy Wolstencroft, Olga Krebbs, Quyen Nguyen, Franco du Preeze, Jacky Snoep, Wolfgang Mueller, Carole Goble

RightField is an open-source tool for adding ontology term selection to Excel spreadsheets. For each annotation field, RightField can specify a range of allowed terms from a chosen ontology (subclasses, individuals or combinations). The resulting spreadsheet presents these terms to the users as a simple drop-down list. This reduces the adoption barrier for using community ontologies as the annotation is made by the scientist that generated the data rather than a third party, and the annotation is collected at the time of data collection.

Stuart Owen, Katy Wolstencroft, Matthew Horridge, Carole Goble