ECO: the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, an Update for 2022

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2022 Jan 6

PMID 34986598

Citations 19

Authors

Suvarna Nadendla

Rebecca Jackson

James Munro

Federica Quaglia

Balint Meszaros

Dustin Olley

Elizabeth T Hobbs

Stephen M Goralski

Marcus Chibucos

Christopher John Mungall

Silvio C E Tosatto

Ivan Erill

Michelle G Giglio

Affiliations

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Abstract

The Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO) is a community resource that provides an ontology of terms used to capture the type of evidence that supports biomedical annotations and assertions. Consistent capture of evidence information with ECO allows tracking of annotation provenance, establishment of quality control measures, and evidence-based data mining. ECO is in use by dozens of data repositories and resources with both specific and general areas of focus. ECO is continually being expanded and enhanced in response to user requests as well as our aim to adhere to community best-practices for ontology development. The ECO support team engages in multiple collaborations with other ontologies and annotating groups. Here we report on recent updates to the ECO ontology itself as well as associated resources that are available through this project. ECO project products are freely available for download from the project website (https://evidenceontology.org/) and GitHub (https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology). ECO is released into the public domain under a CC0 1.0 Universal license.

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