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1. Launch the administration GUI.

Screenshot for launching the adminstrative GUI for LexEVS.

2. Enable the administration option.

Screenshot of LexEVS Guide and how to enable Administrative functions.

3. In this example, we use the cell.obo ontology as the example ontology, so we choose OBOloader.

Screenshot of selection of OBOloaderImage Modified

4. Provide cell.obo file's path. If you don't have a manifest file or preferences file then leave these fields blank. Click on the 'Load' button. After a few minutes, the loading process is done. You can find 'End State: complete' in the Output message box. Close this window, and return to the administration GUI, a 'cell' record should show up on the Available Code Systems list.

Screen shot of OBO loader

5. Select the cell ontology row and click the 'Activate' button. The status column of 'cell' should change to active.

Screen shot of a an active terminology.

6. Make sure the cell ontology is still selected. Go to the 'Export Terminology' menu, click on 'Export as OWL/RDF' in the drop down menu.

Screen shot of menu to use for Export Terminology.

7. Provide a path in the 'URI' text box. The exported file name is automatically generated by the system, so we don't need to specify the file name. Click on the 'Export' button.

Screen shot of the export dialog.

8. A set of status messages will show up in the Output text box. When the 'End State: completed' statement pops up, the exporting process is complete.

Screen shot of the export dialog when the export process is complete.

9. The convention of the exported file name is: <coding system name>_<version>.owl. In this example, cell ontology has no version information, so 'UNASSIGNED' is used as the version. The name of the OWL file in this case will be cell_UNASSIGNED.owl and it is in the C drive's root directory.
You can check the exported OWL file with a text editor. Yours may not show highlighting for the XML syntax.

Screen shot of the exported OWL file being viewed in a text editor.

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