The Open Biomedical Database is an information system designed to store, access, query, analyze and present annotations created with ontologies. Designed initially with an eye toward genotype-phenotype annotation associations, this generic database can accomodate all types of data annotations.
Accesss
Features
- correct use of ontologies in reporting information, answering queries and performing analyses.
- biologically meaningful queries based on information content of ontology classes
- RESTful web-services layer
- Java API
- Complex query objects
- Portable and configurable
Shards
Each instance of an OBD data store is called a shard. Currently the main focus is on the phenotype shard - generated by curators using the Phenote annotation tool, as well as automatically derived from several online resources. A full list of sources can be found on the top level access page
Forthcoming shards include an evolutionary shard, environmental metadata shard and a GO annotation shard.
Wiki
For more information, please see the Wiki
