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DOI representing all stable versions, resolving to the latest:
DOI of the latest stable EDAM version 1.25:
Current status of the 'master' development file:
Twitter: @edamontology (follow).
What is EDAM?
EDAM is a comprehensive ontology of well-established, familiar concepts that are prevalent within computational biology, bioinformatics, and bioimage informatics. EDAM includes types of data and data identifiers, data formats, operations, and topics related to data analysis in life sciences. EDAM provides a set of concepts with preferred terms and synonyms, related terms, definitions, and other information - organised into a simple and intuitive hierarchy for convenient use (see figure).
EDAM is particularly suitable for semantic annotations and categorisation of diverse resources related to bioscientific data analysis: e.g. tools, workflows, or training materials. EDAM is also useful in data management, for recording provenance metadata of processed bioscientific data.
Viewing and download
You can browse EDAM online at the NCBO BioPortal, at OLS, and at the IFB EDAM Browser.
The latest stable version is always at http://edamontology.org/EDAM.owl | tsv | csv. For other versions, see http://edamontology.org/page#Download or /releases.
Documentation
Comprehensive documentation and guidelines are available via readthedocs (maintained here).
A quick overview is at the http://edamontology.org home page.
Citing EDAM
If you refer to EDAM or its part in a scholarly publication, please cite:
Ison, J., Kalaš, M., Jonassen, I., Bolser, D., Uludag, M., McWilliam, H., Malone, J., Lopez, R., Pettifer, S. and Rice, P. (2013). EDAM: an ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats. Bioinformatics, 29(10): 1325-1332. PMID: 23479348 Open Access
EDAM releases are citable with DOIs too, for cases when that is needed. represents all releases and resolves to the DOI of the last stable release.