Analyzing user interactions with biomedical ontologies: A visual perspective.

ABSTRACT: Biomedical ontologies are large: Several ontologies in the BioPortal repository contain thousands or even hundreds of thousands of entities. The development and maintenance of such large ontologies is difficult. To support ontology authors and repository developers in their work, it is crucial to improve our understanding of how these ontologies are explored, queried, reused, and used in downstream applications by biomedical researchers. We present an exploratory empirical analysis of user activities in the BioPortal ontology repository by analyzing BioPortal interaction logs across different access modes over several years. We investigate how users of BioPortal query and search for ontologies and their classes, how they explore the ontologies, and how they reuse classes from different ont

SUBMITTER: Kamdar MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5895104 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature