Excursion: Annotate many terms

Tools to quickly suggest ontology terms for a list of your controlled vocabulary

Maja Magel

2025-10-07

Learning objectives

• use tools to look-up and annotate many terms at once

Annotate list of terms

How to save time and annotate a list of terms?

You can use annotator tools that are provided by the two ontology browsers we used:

• BioPortal has Annotator

• OLS has ZOOMA

Regardless of wether you use these time-saving tools, don’t forget to quality-check each suggested ontology term.

This section could be skipped if not enough time or mentioned if this specific question comes up.