NIH supplement awarded to CEDAR-BioPortal collaboration

November 17, 2016

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded CEDAR a supplement to collaborate with the NCBO BioPortal project.

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of the National Centers for Biomedical Computing funded under the NIH Roadmap Initiative. Contributing to the national computing infrastructure, NCBO has developed BioPortal, a web portal that provides access to a library of biomedical ontologies and terminologies (http://bioportal.bioontology.org) via the NCBO Web services. CEDAR's architecture relies on basic communications with the NCBO BioPortal system, both to enable easy construction of semantically precise templates, and to let users fill out those templates with currently available values from selected ontologies.

With the funds granted, CEDAR and NCBO team members will work together to connect the two systems in ways that can be leveraged by the entire BD2K community. We expect to improve reliability and accessibility to certain NCBO BioPortal web services, and lay a foundation for new features supporting term normalization services and property (relation) services. 

Initial results of this supplement will be presented at the BD2K All Hands Meeting, notably in the poster Increasing NCBO BioPortal and CEDAR Synergy for BD2K.

Last Updated: 
Nov 20 2016 - 4:40pm