This projects provides a visualization for ontologies in the style of OBO-Edit. It's a standalone library and provides a Protégé plugin
This ontology visualization is based on the OBO-Edit code. It was extracted and modified to use the OWL-API. Furthermore, it can be used in any Java Swing application.
The plugin is tested and developed with Protégé Version 4 and 5
For more help on Protégé see Protégé Documentation
Download the latest version from the Releases tab.
Unzip the archive file. There should be one file: org.geneontology.view.protege.jar
Copy this jar file in the plugins folder of your Protégé installation.
The Plugin is a View Component, it can be a component of any tab in Protégé. To include it in a tab navigate to:
Window -> Views -> Ontology Views -> OBO Graph View Component
This will create a new component, which can be dropped in an appropriate position in the Protégé tab. The recommended tab is the 'Classes' tab.
To start the rendering, click on the Synchronize View button.
The plugin requires a reasoner and will warn you, if there is no up-to-date reasoner instance available.
Selections in the Class hierarchy are reflected in the visualization. A selection will update the rendered nodes.
You can also navigate within the graph view: however it is not possible to select items in the graph view and have them be reflected in the rest of Protege
