ONTO-PERL: an API for supporting the development and analysis of bio-ontologies.
BACKGROUND
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.


BACKGROUND
The source code code as well as sample usage scripts can be found at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ONTO-PERL/
Antezana
Eric
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Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, Belgium. erick.antezana@psb.ugent.be
Egaña
Mikel
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De Baets
Bernard
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Kuiper
Martin
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Mironov
Vladimir
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D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface