An empirical analysis of ontology reuse in BioPortal

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Christopher Ochs, Yehoshua Perl, James Geller, Sivaram Arabandi, Tania Tudorache, Mark A. Musen

Published: 2017, Last Modified: 29 Jul 2025J. Biomed. Informatics 2017EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•We analyze content reuse in 355 biomedical ontologies from the NCBO BioPortal.•A total of 197 ontologies are found to reuse classes and/or properties.•We identify how reused content is utilized in the modeling of new classes.•Trends in the utilization of reused ontology content are discussed.