Consider re-use of OLS source code

[joncison]

OLS have done a great job at browsing EDAM:
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/edam

And their source code (for the full-fledged web application) is available under open license:
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/docs/installation-guide

So I think this has to be under consideration for future development of edamToolAnnotator.

We can park the issue for now, but one for the future.

cc @hansioan @hmenager

[hansioan]

Looking at the software requirements of OLS it seems that it might be unfeasible to integrate.
I wrote the annotator with the specific intent of integrating it in bio.tools, thus I have used most of the stuff (including version) that is currently present in bio.tools.
The annotator is basically an Angular (JavaScript) app with no server-side or database components. Furthermore, OLS uses jQuery for the front-end which is ok, but I would like to move ahead with the technology. Nothing wrong with jQuery, but newer JavaScript-based stuff is out now.

The only use case I would see for it would be maybe if people don't want to use Angular when integrating the annotator, then jQuery is vanilla enough to use, but that would mean a separate annotator written in jQuery only.

[joncison]

Understood - of course I hope it gets in bio.tools soon.

The big benefit though is we'll struggle (never?) get a tree browser that comes close to being as good as OLS ... Jupp spent ages on it - this bit would be good to re-use if poss. Just food for thought ...

[hansioan]

I think for now, what we can do is point each term to OLS, as a separate link in the annotator information panel, where all the term info is displayed.