TY - JOUR AU - Côté, Richard G. AU - Jones, Philip AU - Apweiler, Rolf AU - Hermjakob, Henning PY - 2006 DA - 2006/02/28 TI - The Ontology Lookup Service, a lightweight cross-platform tool for controlled vocabulary queries JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 97 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - With the vast amounts of biomedical data being generated by high-throughput analysis methods, controlled vocabularies and ontologies are becoming increasingly important to annotate units of information for ease of search and retrieval. Each scientific community tends to create its own locally available ontology. The interfaces to query these ontologies tend to vary from group to group. We saw the need for a centralized location to perform controlled vocabulary queries that would offer both a lightweight web-accessible user interface as well as a consistent, unified SOAP interface for automated queries. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-97 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-7-97 ID - Côté2006 ER -