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Welcome to the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) Collaboration Platform

Ontology is both a branch of philosophy and a fast-growing component of computer science concerned with the development of formal representations of the entities and relations existing in a variety of application domains. Ontology has been shown to have considerable potential on the level of both pure research and applications. It provides foundations for diverse technologies in areas such as information integration, natural language processing, data annotation, and the construction of intelligent computer systems.

The University at Buffalo has established the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) (http://ncor.buffalo.edu). NCOR partners with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) (http://bioontology.org), together with a number of partner institutions drawn from academia, government, and industry [1].