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OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool
Ontologies have emerged as a fast growing research topic in the area of semantic web during last decade. Currently there are 204 ontologies that are available through OBO Foundry and BioPortal. Several excellent tools for navigating the ontological structure are available, however most of them are d...
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Biomedical Informatics
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738333 |
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author | Srivastava, Alok Kumar Sahni, Narinder Singh |
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description | Ontologies have emerged as a fast growing research topic in the area of semantic web during last decade. Currently there are 204 ontologies that are available through OBO Foundry and BioPortal. Several excellent tools for navigating the ontological structure are available, however most of them are dedicated to a specific annotation data or integrated with specific analysis applications, and do not offer flexibility in terms of general-purpose usage for ontology exploration. We developed OntoVisT, a web based ontological visualization tool. This application is designed for interactive visualization of any ontological hierarchy for a specific node of interest, up to the chosen level of children and/or ancestor. It takes any ontology file in OBO format as input and generates output as DAG hierarchical graph for the chosen query. To enhance the navigation capabilities of complex networks, we have embedded several features such as search criteria, zoom in/out, center focus, nearest neighbor highlights and mouse hover events. The application has been tested on all 72 data sets available in OBO format through OBO foundry. The results for few of them can be accessed through OntoVisT-Gallery. AVAILABILITY: The database is available for free at http://ccbb.jnu.ac.in/OntoVisT.html |
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spelling | pubmed-31246972011-07-07 OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool Srivastava, Alok Kumar Sahni, Narinder Singh Bioinformation Web Server Ontologies have emerged as a fast growing research topic in the area of semantic web during last decade. Currently there are 204 ontologies that are available through OBO Foundry and BioPortal. Several excellent tools for navigating the ontological structure are available, however most of them are dedicated to a specific annotation data or integrated with specific analysis applications, and do not offer flexibility in terms of general-purpose usage for ontology exploration. We developed OntoVisT, a web based ontological visualization tool. This application is designed for interactive visualization of any ontological hierarchy for a specific node of interest, up to the chosen level of children and/or ancestor. It takes any ontology file in OBO format as input and generates output as DAG hierarchical graph for the chosen query. To enhance the navigation capabilities of complex networks, we have embedded several features such as search criteria, zoom in/out, center focus, nearest neighbor highlights and mouse hover events. The application has been tested on all 72 data sets available in OBO format through OBO foundry. The results for few of them can be accessed through OntoVisT-Gallery. AVAILABILITY: The database is available for free at http://ccbb.jnu.ac.in/OntoVisT.html Biomedical Informatics 2011-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3124697/ /pubmed/21738333 Text en © 2011 Biomedical Informatics This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Web Server Srivastava, Alok Kumar Sahni, Narinder Singh OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool |
title | OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool |
title_full | OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool |
title_fullStr | OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool |
title_full_unstemmed | OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool |
title_short | OntoVisT: A general purpose Ontological Visualization Tool |
title_sort | ontovist: a general purpose ontological visualization tool |
topic | Web Server |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738333 |
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