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Ontology Access Kit: Python library for common ontology operations over a variety of backends

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Ontology Access Kit (OAK)

Python lib for common ontology operations over a variety of backends.

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OAK provides a collection of interfaces for various ontology operations, including:

  • look up basic features of an ontology element, such as its label, definition, relationships, or aliases
  • search an ontology for a term
  • validate an ontology
  • modify or delete terms
  • generate and visualize subgraphs
  • identify lexical matches and export as SSSOM mapping tables
  • perform more advanced operations, such as graph traversal, OWL axiom processing, or text annotation

These interfaces are separated from any particular backend, for which there a number of different adapters. This means the same Python API and command line can be used regardless of whether the ontology:

  • is served by a remote API such as OLS or BioPortal
  • is present locally on the filesystem in owl, obo, obojson, or sqlite formats
  • is to be downloaded from a remote repository such as the OBO library
  • is queried from a remote database, including SPARQL endpoints (Ontobee/Ubergraph), A SQL database, a Solr/ES endpoint

Documentation:

Contributing

See the contribution guidelines at CONTRIBUTING.md. All contributors are expected to uphold our Code of Conduct.

Usage

from oaklib import get_adapter

# connect to the CL sqlite database adapter
# (will first download if not already downloaded)
adapter = get_adapter("sqlite:obo:cl")

NEURON = "CL:0000540"

print('## Basic info')
print(f'ID: {NEURON}')
print(f'Label: {adapter.label(NEURON)}')

for alias in adapter.entity_aliases(NEURON):
    print(f'Alias: {alias}')

print('## Relationships (direct)')
for relationship in adapter.relationships([NEURON]):
    print(f' * {relationship.predicate} -> {relationship.object} "{adapter.label(relationship.object)}"')
    
print('## Ancestors (over IS_A and PART_OF)')
from oaklib.datamodels.vocabulary import IS_A, PART_OF
from oaklib.interfaces import OboGraphInterface

if not isinstance(adapter, OboGraphInterface):
    raise ValueError('This adapter does not support graph operations')

for ancestor in adapter.ancestors(NEURON, predicates=[IS_A, PART_OF]):
    print(f' * ANCESTOR: "{adapter.label(ancestor)}"')

For more examples, see

Command Line

See:

Search

Use the pronto backend to fetch and parse an ontology from the OBO library, then use the search command

runoak -i obolibrary:pato.obo search osmol 

Returns:

PATO:0001655 ! osmolarity
PATO:0001656 ! decreased osmolarity
PATO:0001657 ! increased osmolarity
PATO:0002027 ! osmolality
PATO:0002028 ! decreased osmolality
PATO:0002029 ! increased osmolality
PATO:0045034 ! normal osmolality
PATO:0045035 ! normal osmolarity

QC and Validation

Perform validation on PR using sqlite/rdftab instance:

runoak -i sqlite:../semantic-sql/db/pr.db validate

List all terms

List all terms obolibrary has for mondo

runoak -i obolibrary:mondo.obo terms 

Lexical index

Make a lexical index of all terms in Mondo:

runoak  -i obolibrary:mondo.obo lexmatch -L mondo.index.yaml

Search

Searching over OBO using ontobee:

runoak  -i ontobee: search tentacle

yields:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CEPH_0000256 ! tentacle
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CEPH_0000257 ! tentacle absence
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CEPH_0000258 ! tentacle pad
...

Searching over a broader set of ontologies in bioportal (requires API KEY) (https://www.bioontology.org/wiki/BioPortal_Help#Getting_an_API_key)

runoak set-apikey bioportal YOUR-KEY-HERE
runoak  -i bioportal: search tentacle

yields:

BTO:0001357 ! tentacle
http://purl.jp/bio/4/id/200906071014668510 ! tentacle
CEPH:0000256 ! tentacle
http://www.projecthalo.com/aura#Tentacle ! Tentacle
CEPH:0000256 ! tentacle
...

Alternatively, you can add "BIOPORTAL_API_KEY" to your environment variables.

Searching over more limited set of ontologies in Ubergraph:

runoak -v -i ubergraph: search tentacle

yields

UBERON:0013206 ! nasal tentacle

Annotating Texts

runoak  -i bioportal: annotate neuron from CA4 region of hippocampus of mouse

yields:

object_id: CL:0000540
object_label: neuron
object_source: https://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/NIFDYS
match_type: PREF
subject_start: 1
subject_end: 6
subject_label: NEURON

object_id: http://www.co-ode.org/ontologies/galen#Neuron
object_label: Neuron
object_source: https://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/GALEN
match_type: PREF
subject_start: 1
subject_end: 6
subject_label: NEURON

...

Mapping

Create a SSSOM mapping file for a set of ontologies:

robot merge -I http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp.owl -I http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mp.owl convert --check false -o hp-mp.obo
runoak lexmatch -i hp-mp.obo -o hp-mp.sssom.tsv

Visualization of ancestor graphs

Use the sqlite backend to visualize graph up from 'vacuole' using test ontology sqlite:

runoak -i sqlite:tests/input/go-nucleus.db  viz GO:0005773

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Same using ubergraph, restricting to is-a and part-of

runoak -i ubergraph:  viz GO:0005773 -p i,BFO:0000050

Same using pronto, fetching ontology from obolibrary

runoak -i obolibrary:go.obo  viz GO:0005773

Configuration

OAK uses pystow for caching. By default, this goes inside ~/.data/, but can be configured following these instructions.

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