EDAM: An ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats

Jon Ison, Matúš Kalaš, Inge Jonassen, Dan Bolser, Mahmut Uludag, Hamish McWilliam, James Malone, Rodrigo Lopez, Steve Pettifer, Peter Rice

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    Abstract

    Motivation: Advancing the search, publication and integration of bioinformatics tools and resources demands consistent machine-understandable descriptions. A comprehensive ontology allowing such descriptions is therefore required.Results: EDAM is an ontology of bioinformatics operations (tool or workflow functions), types of data and identifiers, application domains and data formats. EDAM supports semantic annotation of diverse entities such as Web services, databases, programmatic libraries, standalone tools, interactive applications, data schemas, datasets and publications within bioinformatics. EDAM applies to organizing and finding suitable tools and data and to automating their integration into complex applications or workflows. It includes over 2200 defined concepts and has successfully been used for annotations and implementations. © 2013 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1325-1332
    Number of pages7
    JournalBioinformatics
    Volume29
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2013

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