title: The National Center for Biomedical Ontology.
abstract: The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is now in its seventh year. The goals of this National Center for Biomedical Computing are to: create and maintain a repository of biomedical ontologies and terminologies; build tools and web services to enable the use of ontologies and terminologies in clinical and translational research; educate their trainees and the scientific community broadly about biomedical ontology and ontology-based technology and best practices; and collaborate with a variety of groups who develop and use ontologies and terminologies in biomedicine. The centerpiece of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology is a web-based resource known as BioPortal. BioPortal makes available for research in computationally useful forms more than 270 of the world's biomedical ontologies and terminologies, and supports a wide range of web services that enable investigators to use the ontologies to annotate and retrieve data, to generate value sets and special-purpose lexicons, and to perform advanced analytics on a wide range of biomedical data.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5479, USA. musen@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Musen
authors.forename: Natalya F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Noy
authors.forename: Nigam H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Patricia L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Whetzel
authors.forename: Christopher G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Chute
authors.forename: Margaret-Anne
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Story
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006040:Goals; D008490:Medical Informatics; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled
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