Protégé-OWL: Creating Ontology-Driven Reasoning Applicationswith the Web Ontology Language

Protege OWL1 is an open source tool created to support ontology development for the Semantic Web. It is a plug-in extension to the Protege ontology development platform. Protege OWL allows users to edit ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and to use description logic classifiers to maintain consistency of their ontologies. Protege OWL can also assist developers of intelligent applications in biomedicine, because many of the problem-solving tasks they seek to automate can be construed as classification tasks. Protege OWL provides access to emerging knowledge representation standards such as OWL and high-performance classifiers. Being integrated with Protege, the OWL Plug-in allows users to exploit Protege’s core features and services such as graphical user interfaces, a variety of storage formats, and data acquisition and visualization tools. Finally, Protege OWL provides an API allowing it to be integrated into applications.