Error Loading Ontologies

[JCGiron]

I recently downloaded Phenex to start annotating beetle matrices with ontology terms.
When trying to use it, it starts loading until I get this message:
"An error occurred while loading ontologies: Load Error, line 39521"

When I press OK, the program finishes loading and opens the expected window. The problem is that certain functions are not working. For example, View> Config> Ontology Sources doesn't do anything.
I was able to open a NexML matrix. When trying to annotate a phenotype for a character state it doesn't even load UBERON terms.

Am I doing something wrong?

[balhoff]

The cause is Phenex's brittle old OBO parser, and this problem in Uberon: obophenotype/uberon#2373

I will try to find a workaround. Usually you can open Ontology Sources and set different ontology locations, even when a loading error occurs.

[balhoff]

If you are able to open Ontology Sources, you can set the Uberon location to http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/releases/2021-11-28/ext.obo to avoid this error for now.

[wdahdul]

@JCGiron, feel free to get in touch with me if you would like a quick demo of Phenex, or need further help getting Phenex started! my email is wdahdul @gmail.com

[wdahdul]

You may also need to set the OBO relations source to: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/releases/2021-10-27/ro.obo

[JCGiron]

If you are able to open Ontology Sources, you can set the Uberon location to http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/releases/2021-11-28/ext.obo to avoid this error for now.

That is the issue, Ontology Sources does not open any options.
Actually, none of the options under View are working for me.

[JCGiron]

The problem was that I had only downloaded the Source code, but not the app. I just downloaded the app file, unzipped it and double cklicked the file. Now the options under View seem to be working properly, even though the ontology loading error is still showing up.
Perhaps it would be helpful for others to make the installation instructions more clear?