A defined way or layout of representing and structuring data in a computer file, blob, string, message, or elsewhere. The main focus in EDAM lies on formats as means of structuring data exchanged between different tools or resources. The serialisation, compression, or encoding of concrete data formats/models is not in scope of EDAM. Format 'is format of' Data.

Prefix
edam.format
Keywords
ontology
Links
Homepage Repository OBO
Contact
Matúš Kalaš   0000-0002-1509-4981   matuskalas
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in EDAM Format should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
1915   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from EDAM Format should match this regular expression:
^edam\.format:\d+$

Example CURIE
edam.format:1915
Contributors
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Part Of (bfo:0000050 )
edam
Metaregistry EDAM Format

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink EDAM-FORMAT
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 1915 is used to demonstrate the providers available for EDAM Format. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
EDAM Format edam.format http://edamontology.org/format_1915
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/edam.format:1915