What is Phenote?

Phenote is a general-purpose open source platform-independent application to facilitate data annotation using ontologies.

Originally developed as a literature curation tool for biomedical phenotype annotation, Phenote can be customized to suit any user-specified domain requiring ontology-based annotation. The all-in-one interface allows users to quickly search and view corresponding metadata for relevant ontology terms during data entry, browse through the ontology in a navigation window, and view the data annotations in a spreadsheet-like window. Data recorded with Phenote can be ported to any external application or database using one of its built-in data adapters, or by plugging in a custom data adapter generated with the API.

Phenote development is funded by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (www.bioontology.org), which is an NIH Roadmap Intiative through the National Centers for Biomedical Computing.