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ONTO-PERL: an API for supporting the development and analysis of bio-ontologies
Eric Antezana1, Mikel Egaña, Bernard De Baets
1Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, Belgium. erick.antezana@psb.ugent.be
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 bio-ontologies.
Availability:
The source code code as well as sample usage scripts can be found at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ONTO-PERL/
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