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Pease send email to the BioPortal Support List </p><p>Please visit our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bioontology.org">main site</a> for more information about NCBO. </p><p><br /> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Software"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Software</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Documentation"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Documentation</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Mail_Support"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Mail Support</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Ontology_Development_Projects"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Ontology Development Projects</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Software">Software</span></h2> <p>To follow is a list of software developed and maintained by NCBO: </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bioportal.bioontology.org">BioPortal</a> - A web-based application for accessing and sharing biomedical ontologies</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://data.bioontology.org/">BioPortal REST API</a> - A RESTful API to access BioPortal content</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:NCBO_Virtual_Appliance" title="Category:NCBO Virtual Appliance">BioPortal Virtual Appliance</a> - Contains BioPortal and the BioPortal REST API, runs on Linux</li></ul> <p>Please refer to our <a href="/wiki/BioPortal_Release_Notes" title="BioPortal Release Notes">release notes</a> page for change logs. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Documentation">Documentation</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BioPortal_Help" title="BioPortal Help">BioPortal</a> - get help with the user interface and instructions for commonly performed tasks</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.bioontology.org/documentation">BioPortal REST API</a> - see a list of available endpoints with usage instructions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:NCBO_Virtual_Appliance" title="Category:NCBO Virtual Appliance">BioPortal Virtual Appliance</a> - read a getting started guide and installation instructions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Using_NCBO_Technology_In_Your_Project" title="Using NCBO Technology In Your Project">Using NCBO technologies in your project</a> - get ideas for how to employ NCBO technologies in your website or application</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SKOSSupport" title="SKOSSupport">SKOS support</a> - view the specifics of BioPortal's support for SKOS vocabularies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NCBO_Developer_Documentation" title="NCBO Developer Documentation">Developer documentation</a></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Mail_Support">Mail Support</span></h3> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioontology-support">BioPortal Support List</a> - sign up to see and request community support for BioPortal</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/bioontology-support/">BioPortal mailman email archives</a> - the usual mailman archive format for BioPortal support list</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ncbo-support.2288202.n4.nabble.com/">BioPortal nabble email archives</a> - 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