Ontology Lookup Service
The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) is a repository for biomedical ontologies that aims to provide a single point of access to the latest ontology versions. Users can browse ontologies through the website and programmatically via the OLS API. Maintained by the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies Team (SPOT) at EMBL-EBI.
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