Repository details

Ontology Lookup Service

Name of repository
Ontology Lookup Service
Additional name(s)
  • OLS
  • EMBL-EBI OLS
Repository URL
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/index
Subject(s)
Description
The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) is a repository for biomedical ontologies that aims to provide a single point of access to the latest ontology versions. The user can browse the ontologies through the website as well as programmatically via the OLS API. The OLS provides a web service interface to query multiple ontologies from a single location with a unified output format.The OLS can integrate any ontology available in the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) format. The OLS is an open source project hosted on Google Code.
Contact
  • ols-support@ebi.ac.uk
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
  • RRID:SCR_006596
  • RRID:nif-0000-10390
  • OMICS_02275
  • FAIRsharing_doi:10.25504/FAIRsharing.Mkl9RR
Repository size
217 ontologies;5.529.907 terms; 19.500 properties; 479.569 individuals
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/roadmap.html
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
Institution name
European Commission, HORIZON 2020
Contact(s)
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute
Additional name(s)
  • EMBL-EBI
Contact(s)
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (2)

Policy Name
HORIZON 2020 Open Access to research data
Policy Name
Documentation

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Database licenses (1)

Database License
Apache License 2.0

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
Apache License 2.0
DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • other

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Apache License 2.0
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • other
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/docs/about
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
unknown

Application programming interfaces (1)

API type
REST

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard name
RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
Metadata standard scheme
DCC

Remarks

Remarks
OLS 3 is a complete re-write of the code and includes some significant changes to how we index and serve up ontology data.
Entry date
2013-06-21
Last update
2023-03-22
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re3data.org: Ontology Lookup Service; editing status 2023-03-22; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3GS9G last accessed: 2024-04-25