Table 3

Comparison of available features between existing ontology repositories and OntoCAT

OLS

BioPortal

OntoCAT

Web services

SOAP

REST

REST

Java API

Yes

Yes

Complexity (C)

16

29

16

Richness (R)

177

1405

≥ 1582

log R/C

1.0

1.7

≥ 2.0

OWL support

Yes

Yes

OBO support

Yes

Yes

Yes

Local ontologies

Yes

Open source

Apache License

Apache License

LGPL v.3

Complexity is represented as a number of public methods available in the respective Java API interface or different web services signatures where the former is not available. Richness is measured as a number of hits returned from a non exact query for 'thymus'. A logarithm of richness and complexity quotient is provided as a single score to judge the relation between the two. It is higher the richer the source and less complex it is to access [created on 27-07-2010].

Adamusiak et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2011 12:218   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-218