# OntoClick

> Turn a free text description into a proper ontology term.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ontoclick](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ontoclick)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ontoclick`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Zankl Lab
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2021-05-12
- **First published:** 2021-05-11
- **Size:** 3.50 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ontoclick/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/azankl/Ontoclick](https://github.com/azankl/Ontoclick)

## Description

OntoClick is a Firefox add-on developed by Professor Zankl's research group at the University of Sydney. It facilitates the curation of biomedical knowledge found in PubMed and other sources by allowing users to search for matching ontology terms in the Human Phenotype Ontology and other Biomedical Ontologies.

## Rankings

- #69,446 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `activeTab`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ontoclick)