OWLTools (aka OWL2LS - OWL2 Life Sciences) is convenience java API on top of the OWL API. It provides many features, including:

• convenience methods for OBO-like properties such as synonyms, textual definitions, obsoletion, replaced_by
• simple graph-like operations over ontologies
• visualization using the QuickGO graphs libraries

Oort is also distributed as part of OWLTools

Documentation

The javadocs can be browsed here:

• http://owltools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/index.html

For detailed documentation, start with the OWLTools Introduction.

OWLTools relies heavily on the Manchester OWLAPI, familiarity with this helps - see the OWLAPI tutorial

Contact

The list is mirrored as a googlegroup. You can use either of the two:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/owltools
• https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/obo-owltools