OntoMaton: a Bioportal powered ontology widget for Google Spreadsheets

Journal article

Motivation: 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. Availability: OntoMaton is freely available from Google widgets under the CPAL open source license; documentation and examples at: https://github.com/ISA-tools/OntoMaton.

Authors: Sansone, E; Rocca−Serra, P

• Journal: Bioinformatics
• Publication date: 2013-01-01
• DOI: doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts718