See https://github.com/EBISPOT/ols/releases for latest releases and notes.
- Added support for restricting searches using the API to hierarchical descendants of a term (i.e. all children including parts)
- Fixed bug where API term links for hierarchical children wasn’t working
- Updated UI widgets to use new standalone implementation based on BioJS. All UI components for search, graph and tree view are in both NPM and BioJS
- Improved handling of OBO DB Xrefs, these are now correctly formatted and have links to external databases where available (EBISPOT/OLS#85, EBISPOT/OLS#83)
- Added support for rendering images e.g. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/uberon/terms?iri=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FUBERON_0002530
- Fixed tree view bug where unsatisfiable classes were children of everything EBISPOT/OLS#87
- Download ontology now has ontology name as filename EBISPOT/OLS#84
- Updates to documentation
- Added EBIOLS twitter feed to homepage
We're pleased the announce the release of the new EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS). You can access the new OLS at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols. The old service at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup is now retired and will soon redirect to the new URL.
New features include
- New ontology search and visualisation components
- Includes the full set of OBO library ontologies and more
- Supports ontologies published in both OBO and OWL
- Ontology term history tracking
- New RESTful API … more features to follow in the coming year!
For any future updates please subscribe to the OLS announce mailing lists https://listserver.ebi.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ols-announce
If there are any additional ontologies you would like to see in OLS or have suggestions for new features please get in touch using ols-support@ebi.ac.uk.
All the source code is also available on GitHub with instruction on how to build a local OLS. You can also post issues on the GitHub issue tracker if you prefer https://github.com/EBISPOT/OLS