appears_in: []
banana: ECO
contact:
  email: mgiglio@som.umaryland.edu
  github: mgiglio99
  name: Michelle Giglio
  orcid: 0000-0001-7628-5565
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: 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.
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/eco.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/eco.owl
example: 0007807
homepage: https://www.evidenceontology.org
license: CC0-1.0
mappings:
  aberowl: ECO
  bartoc: '1028'
  biocontext: ECO
  bioportal: ECO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.wvpgwn
  go: ECO
  miriam: eco
  n2t: eco
  obofoundry: eco
  ols: eco
  ontobee: ECO
  prefixcommons: eco
  wikidata: P3811
name: Evidence ontology
namespace_in_lui: true
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: ECO
prefix: eco
providers: []
publications:
- pubmed: '34986598'
  title: 'ECO: the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, an update for 2022.'
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gky1036
  pmc: PMC6323956
  pubmed: '30407590'
  title: 'ECO, the Evidence & Conclusion Ontology: community standard for evidence
    information.'
  year: 2019
- doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3743-1_18
  pmc: PMC6377151
  pubmed: '27812948'
  title: 'The Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO): Supporting GO Annotations.'
  year: 2017
- doi: 10.1093/database/bau075
  pmc: PMC4105709
  pubmed: '25052702'
  title: Standardized description of scientific evidence using the Evidence Ontology
    (ECO).
  year: 2014
- doi: 10.1142/9789812704856_0019
  pubmed: '14992503'
  title: An evidence ontology for use in pathway/genome databases.
  year: 2004
repository: https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology
synonyms: []
uri_format: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/eco/terms?obo_id=ECO:$1
version: '2022-08-05'