ECO: the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, an update for 2022
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2021-11-19
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Suvarna Nadendla, Rebecca Jackson, James Munro, Federica Quaglia, Bálint Mészáros, Dustin Olley, Elizabeth T Hobbs, Stephen M Goralski, Marcus Chibucos, Christopher John Mungall, Silvio C E Tosatto, Ivan Erill, Michelle G Giglio, ECO: the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, an update for 2022, Nucleic Acids Research, 2021;, gkab1025, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab1025
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This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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Abstract
The Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO) is a
community resource that provides an ontology of
terms used to capture the type of evidence that supports biomedical annotations and assertions. Consistent capture of evidence information with ECO allows tracking of annotation provenance, establishment of quality control measures, and evidence-based data mining. ECO is in use by dozens of
data repositories and resources with both specific
and general areas of focus. ECO is continually being expanded and enhanced in response to user
requests as well as our aim to adhere to com munity best-practices for ontology development.
The ECO support team engages in multiple collaborations with other ontologies and annotating
groups. Here we report on recent updates to the
ECO ontology itself as well as associated resources
that are available through this project. ECO project
products are freely available for download from
the project website (https://evidenceontology.org/)
and GitHub (https://github.com/evidenceontology/
evidenceontology). ECO is released into the public
domain under a CC0 1.0 Universal license.