Usage Patterns

Usage Patterns / Recipes

Purpose

Provide task-oriented patterns with reusable examples.

Find a concept by label

curl "https://data.bioontology.org/search?q=melanoma&require_exact_match=true&apikey=YOUR_KEY"

Traverse a class hierarchy

1. Fetch a class resource
2. Follow links.children or links.parents

curl "https://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/NCIT/classes/ROOT_ID/children?apikey=YOUR_KEY"

Annotate free text

curl "https://data.bioontology.org/annotator?text=melanoma&exclude_synonyms=true&longest_only=true&apikey=YOUR_KEY"

Recommend ontologies for a dataset

curl "https://data.bioontology.org/recommender?input=gene,expression,cell&input_type=2&apikey=YOUR_KEY"

Handle paginated search results

curl "https://data.bioontology.org/search?q=cancer&page=2&pagesize=25&apikey=YOUR_KEY"