title: OntoMaton: a bioportal powered ontology widget for Google Spreadsheets.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Data collection in spreadsheets is ubiquitous, but current solutions lack support for collaborative semantic annotation that would promote shared and interdisciplinary annotation practices, supporting geographically distributed players.
  
  
  RESULTS
  OntoMaton is an open source solution that brings ontology lookup and tagging capabilities into a cloud-based collaborative editing environment, harnessing Google Spreadsheets and the NCBO Web services. It is a general purpose, format-agnostic tool that may serve as a component of the ISA software suite. OntoMaton can also be used to assist the ontology development process.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  OntoMaton is freely available from Google widgets under the CPAL open source license; documentation and examples at: https://github.com/ISA-tools/OntoMaton.
authors.affiliation: Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, OX1 3QG, Oxford, UK. isatools@googlegroups.com
authors.forename: Eamonn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maguire
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: González-Beltrán
authors.forename: Patricia L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Whetzel
authors.forename: Susanna-Assunta
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sansone
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rocca-Serra
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled