EDAM is an ontology of general bioinformatics concepts, including topics, data types, formats, identifiers and operations. EDAM provides a controlled vocabulary for the description, in semantic terms, of things such as: web services (e.g. WSDL files), applications, tool collections and packages, work-benches and workflow software, databases and ontologies, XSD data schema and data objects, data syntax and file formats, web portals and pages, resource catalogues and documents (such as scientific publications).
edam
Local identifiers in Bioinformatics operations, data types, formats, identifiers and topics should match this
regular expression:
^(data|topic|operation|format)\_\d{4}$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Bioinformatics operations, data types, formats, identifiers and topics should match
this regular expression:
^edam:(data|topic|operation|format)\_\d{4}$
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are
7 mappings to external registries for edam
.
Registry Name | Metaprefix | External Prefix |
---|---|---|
BioPortal Prefixes | bioportal |
EDAM
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.a6r7zs
|
Identifiers.org
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miriam |
edam
|
Name-to-Thing
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n2t |
edam
|
Ontology Lookup Service
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ols |
edam
|
OntoBee | ontobee |
EDAM
|
Prefix Commons | prefixcommons |
EDAM
|
Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE
edam:data_1664
is used to demonstrate the provides available for
edam
. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic
logic beyond string formatting.