An R interface to the Ontology Lookup Service (original) (raw)
The Ontology Lookup Service
The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS), developed at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), is a unified web interface to query multiple ontologies from a single location. The new version of the OLS uses a REST API.
The rols
package uses functionality from the httr package to query the OLS directly from R.
See the package’s page on GitHub for details, documentation and vignette.
Installation
rols
is available from the Bioconductor repository. The package and its dependencies can be installed
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly=TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("rols")
See also the rols
Bioconductor page for on-line access to the vignette and the reference manual.