The BioPortal Reference Plugin allows a user to insert references to terms, classes, etc. from external ontologies and terminologies stored in the
BioPortal ontology repository into his or her own ontology without the need to import the external ontology.
The plugin allows the easy navigation from the domain ontology in Protege to the external ontology by simply clicking on the generated hyperlink of
a reference. The hyperlink will take the user directly into BioPortal to the referenced term. The user may also search BioPortal for alternative terms.
The plugin is configurable and works with Protege OWL, RDF, Frames, client-server and all backends of Protege.
The plugin is a slot widget that can be attached to any object or annotation property in OWL, or any slot with value type instance, class or any in Frames.
Download. The plugin is bundled with the Protege installation. However, new versions of the plugin may become available sooner, and they will be published and can be downloaded from the plugin wiki page.
Support. The plugin is actively developed and maintained by the Protege team. If you have any questions or problems with the plugin, please post a message on the protege mailing list (protege-owl for OWL ontologies, and protege-discussion for Protege frames ontologies). Instructions for posting on the Protege mailing lists are found here.