Ontobat

Ontovert: Convert instance data to an ontology OWL format

The Ontovert software program converts a tab-delimited text file containing individual instance data entries into an ontology OWL(RDF/XML) data format.

Simple tutorial:

Select one ontology first: Select an ontology from the drop-down list. This ontology structure will be used as the data format for the instance data.
Provide input data: The input data should use a tab-delimited test format. This can be copied to our text box in the website, or saved in a text file and then uploaded to our program. It's noted that the first row of the document should be the list of ontology IDs and these ontology IDs are contained in the ontology selected above.
Output: The output file is an OWL file that list each instance data as instances of corresponding ontology class terms which are defined in the header of the text document. This OWL file can be opened using an OWL editor such as the Protege OWL editor.

Here is the program:

(1) Select one ontology

Or enter your favorite source ontology and SPARQL endpoint: Example

(2) Input tab delimited text: Example

Or input data using local text file

Upload input file:

Citations for more information about the Ontovert example:

He Y, Xiang Z, Todd T, Courtot M, Brinkman R, Zheng J, Stoeckert CJ, Malone J, Rocca-Serra P, Sansone S, Fostel J, Soldatova LN, Peters B, Rutternberg A. Ontology representation and ANOVA analysis of vaccine protection investigation. Proceeding of Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences, ISMB, July 9-10, 2010. Boston, MA, USA. Full length paper. Check Dr. He's presentation: PPT version, or PDF version (note: the slides mentioned the Ontovert feature) .
Todd TE, Tibi O, Lin Y, Sayers S, Bronner DN, Xiang Z, He Y. Meta-analysis of variables affecting mouse protection efficacy of whole organism Brucella vaccines and vaccine candidates. BMC Bioinformatics. 2013, 14(Suppl 6):S3. PMID: 23735014. PMCID: PMC3633026.

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