What is NCBO?
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (http://www.biontology.org) is a consortium of leading biologists, clinicians, informaticians, and ontologists who develop innovative technology and methods that allow scientists to create, disseminate, and manage biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form. Our vision is that all biomedical knowledge and data are disseminated on the Internet using principled ontologies, such that the knowledge and data are semantically interoperable and useful for furthering biomedical science and clinical care. The Center’s products and technologies include BioPortal, Phenote+, Open Biomedical Resources (OBR), Biomedical Annotations Repository (BAR), and Open Biomedical Data (OBD). Partner technologies include LexGrid, Protege, and Jambalaya. The products and technologies are used to deliver repositories and tools for accessing and using this biomedical information in research. The Center collaborates with biomedical researchers conduct
