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Ontology editor for building OWL ontologies and checking them with reasoners such as HermiT; WebProtégé offers collaborative editing in the browser.

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Licence
BSD-2-Clause
Cost
Free of charge
Source code
Open source
Activity
Active · last release Mar 2026
Domains
Cross-domain

About

Protégé supports ontology editing, inspection and reasoning. It can be used when implementing semantic models, adding ontology annotations and validating modelling choices.

Where it fits in the FAIR Metroline

Metroline steps

How to cite

https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu256

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Adoption and activity

1599GitHub stars
5.6.9latest release · Mar 2026
Oct 2026last code change

From bio.tools and GitHub, 23 Oct 2026.

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Keywords

ontology OWL RDF