Welcome to the COBrA-Views project
BioSphere ontology portal (production version) has been running for some months and provides access to all the tools developed by this project. Accounts for this server can be requested from stuart[at]aiai.ed.ac.uk -- ----> Due to a hardware failure, the BioSphere portal is currently unavailable.
A demo version of the OBO Editor interface can be tried out here. Note: Safari users who experience problems should try opening these links in a new tab - due to Safari's security features. Firefox users can simply follow the links. IE users will not be able to use all the features of the portal.The COBrA-Views project continues our research into the versioning, sharing and collaborative development of bio-ontologies.
The COBrA-Views project has developed:- BioSphere: a portal based on Grid technology, GridSphere, that allows bio-ontologists to collaboratively develop and review ontologies;
- efficient XML methods for efficiently storing and manipulating OWL ontologies; and is carrying out
- case studies to scope and evaluate this technology.
COBrA-Views began on 1/3/2008 and is led by Dr Stuart Aitken and Prof Jonathan Bard. More details of the planned research can be found in this report.
A recent poster reports on the progress to date: Biocuration Conference 2009.The BioSphere demonstration portal (01) is available for download. This GridSphere portlet shows how an eXist XML database, OGSA-DAI middleware, and the GridSphere portal can be integrated. This design also uses the Spring framework and the Dojo javascript toolkit.
COBrA Curation Tool
The COBrA-Views project continues work initiated in the COBrA-CT project which addressed the re-formatting, editing and version management problems that arise when bio-ontologies are converted to the Web Ontology Language (OWL).