Horned OWL

Horned-OWL is a library for manipulating data written using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). While there are a number of libraries that manipulate this form of data such as the OWL API, they can be quite slow. Horned-OWL is aimed at allowing ontologies with millions of terms.

The library now implements all of OWL2, and we are working on further parser functionality. We are testing it with real world tasks, such as parsing the Gene Ontology, which is does in 2-3 seconds which is 20-40 times faster than the OWL API.

Library

To use the latest version of the library in your Rust project, add the following line to your Cargo.toml file:

toml [dependencies] ... horned-owl = "0.12.0"

Command Line tools

In addition to the Rust library, the project includes the implementations of several command line utilities that exemplify the usage of APIs offered by the horned-owl crate and provide ready-to-use tools.

Building

The tool suite is available as a single binary horned:

bash cargo build --release --bin horned

or as a collection of standalone binaries, each can be built using:

bash cargo build --release --bin horned-[TOOLNAME]

Running

To use one of the utilities described below, run

bash horned [TOOLNAME] <ARGUMENT_LIST>

or

bash horned-[TOOLNAME] <ARGUMENT_LIST>

using the requested arguments.

Description

| Tool | Arguments | Summary | Source file | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | big | n: unsigned integer | Generates an OWL file containing n class declarations. | source | | compare | ont-1, ont-2: paths | Compares the statistics of ontologies specified in ont-1 and ont-2. | source | | dump | ont: path | Parses ont and returns the content of the data structures created by the parser. | source | | materialize | ont: path | Parses ont, downloading and resolving all of the ontologies imported by ont. | source | | parse | ont: path | Parses ont and exits. | source | | round | ont: path | Parses ont and renders the obtained ontology. | source | | summary | ont: path | Parses ont and returns statistics related to the obtained ontology. | source | | triples | ont: path | Parses ont as an ontology written using the OWL/RDF format and returns the obtained triples. | source | | unparsed | ont: path | Parses ont as an ontology written using the OWL/RDF format and shows what has not been successfully parsed. | source |