Protégé (software)

Protégé
DeveloperStanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
Initial release11 November 1999 (1999-11-11)
Stable release
5.6.8 / 3 September 2025 (2025-09-03)
Written inJava
Operating systemLinux, Mac OS X & Windows
PlatformJava VM
TypeOntology editor
LicenseBSD 2-clause
Websiteprotege.stanford.edu
Repositorygithub.com/protegeproject/protege

Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and a knowledge management system. The Protégé meta-tool was first built by Mark Musen in 1987 and has since been developed by a team at Stanford University. The software is the most popular and widely used ontology editor in the world.