Trish has recorded her talk as a screencast as she wanted to do a demo, and she can't trust the wireless - true enough! - Allyson Lister

RESTful services for BioPortal: http://rest.bioontology.org/bioport... (Note this is the prefix for all services, and if you just go to this URL there isn't anything visible) - Allyson Lister

main BioPortal site: http://bioportal.bioontology.org - Allyson Lister

Can store ontologies in OWL, OBO and Protege frames formats. - Allyson Lister

There are also ontology widgets that you can put on your own site, including jump-to feature and term selection widget. This latter one is especially useful because it allows your web app to use term auto-complete without having to code it yourself! - Allyson Lister

The search function is especially important for ontology re-use. For instance, if you're developing a new domain ontology, then you want to make sure you don't reinvent the wheel - Allyson Lister

As with all of these functions, the search features are available both via the website and programmatically - Allyson Lister

BioPortal also allows you to annotate, or add notes, to ontologies. - Allyson Lister

Nice - a tag / term cloud for annotation - Allyson Lister

You may see duplicates in the tag cloud - designed to be this way to show that more than one ontology has that term. - Allyson Lister

they have a visualization of the hierarchy that is dynamic and you can play with. - Allyson Lister

Questions? support at bioontology.org - Allyson Lister

Blog post: http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009... - Allyson Lister

I was wondering who Patricia was ;) - Frank