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Ontoclick: a web browser extension to facilitate biomedical knowledge curation

2021; Oxford University Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/bioinformatics/btab520

1367-4811

Anthony Xu, Aravind Venkateswaran, Lianguizi Zhou, Andreas Zankl,

Semantic Web and Ontologies

Knowledge curation from the biomedical literature is very valuable but can be a repetitive and laborious process. The paucity of user-friendly tools is one of the reasons for the lack of widespread adoption of good biomedical knowledge curation practices.Here, we present Ontoclick, a web browser extension that streamlines the process of annotating a text span with a relevant ontology term. We hope this tool will make biocuration more accessible to a wider audience of biomedical researchers.Ontoclick is freely available under the GPL-3.0 license on the Chrome Web Store and on the Mozilla Add-Ons for Firefox Store. Source code and documentation are available at: https://github.com/azankl/Ontoclick.