OLS4
Provides a central repository for biomedical ontologies, offering a single point of access to their latest versions.
About
The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) is a comprehensive platform developed by EMBL-EBI, designed to serve as a unified repository for biomedical ontologies. It provides users with a single, accessible point to discover and interact with the most current versions of various ontologies. OLS facilitates this through a user-friendly website, a robust REST API for programmatic access, and an MCP server endpoint for machine-readable information. Internally, it leverages specialized database servers like Solr for full-text search and Neo4j for efficient recursive graph queries, enabling powerful exploration and analysis of interconnected knowledge within the biomedical domain.
Key Features
- Centralized repository for biomedical ontologies
- REST API for programmatic access
- Machine-readable MCP server endpoint
- Full-text search capabilities for ontology entities
- Graph-based querying for complex relationships
- 70 GitHub stars
Use Cases
- Discovering and exploring biomedical ontologies and their entities
- Integrating ontology data into third-party applications and services
- Analyzing complex relationships within knowledge graphs for research or development