Evidence codes can be used to specify the type of supporting evidence for a piece of knowledge. This allows inference of a 'level of support' between an entity and an annotation made to an entity.

Prefix

eco

Preferred Prefix

ECO

Keywords

assay biocuration biological sample annotation computational biology curated information digital curation evidence life science literature curation obo ontology resource metadata study design text mining

Version

2024-07-19

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Michelle Giglio   0000-0001-7628-5565   mgiglio99

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Evidence and Conclusion Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0007807   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Evidence and Conclusion Ontology should match this regular expression:
^ECO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

ECO:0007807

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, the banana looks like ECO:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like ECO:0007807 (instead of the canonical form 0007807) and CURIEs for this resource that look like ECO:ECO:0007807 (instead of the canonical form ECO:0007807). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2022 ECO: the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, an update for 2022
• 2019 ECO, the Evidence & Conclusion Ontology: community standard for evidence information
• 2017 The Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO): Supporting GO Annotations
• 2014 Standardized description of scientific evidence using the Evidence Ontology (ECO)
• 2004 An evidence ontology for use in pathway/genome databases

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 13 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECO_$1

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 0007807 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Evidence and Conclusion Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.