edam

is a Ontology.

EDAM is an ontology of bioscientific data analysis and data management, covering topics, operations, data, identifiers, and formats. It supports semantic annotation of tools, workflows, training, and provenance metadata across life sciences.

Domains

information technology, biological systems

License

CC-BY-SA-4.0

Homepage

edam

Repository

GitHub

Infores ID

Unknown

FAIRsharing ID

Unknown

Product Summary

Contacts

Jon Ison

Github: joncison

Matúš Kalaš

Github: matuskalas

Hervé Ménager

Github: hmenager

Products

From this Resource
ID Name URL Category Format Description
edam.owl EDAM OWL EDAM.owl (3.2 MB) OntologyProduct owl EDAM OWL release
edam.tsv EDAM TSV EDAM.tsv (1.9 MB) OntologyProduct tsv EDAM TSV export
edam.csv EDAM CSV EDAM.csv (1.9 MB) OntologyProduct csv EDAM CSV export
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ubkg.csv UBKG Ontology CSV Files ubkg-downloads.xconsortia.org GraphProduct csv Ontology CSV files that can be import...

Details

EDAM provides a simple, four-branch structure (Topic, Operation, Data, Format) to organise concepts prevalent in computational biology and bioinformatics, enabling consistent annotation and discovery of resources.

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Created: June 04, 2025 | Last modified: October 15, 2025