Ontology
EDAM
EDAM Ontology
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).
Source & access
- homepage edamontology.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download raw.githubusercontent.com HTTP 200
Portals & registries
| Source | ID | Version | Classes | Properties | Individuals | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OLS (EMBL-EBI) | edam | 1.25-20260626T1230Z | 3,539 | 75 | 0 | 25 Oct 2026 |
| TIB Terminology Service | edam | 1.25-20260626T1230Z | 3,538 | 95 | 3 | 9 Jul 2026 |
Ontology IRI http://edamontology.org
Version IRI http://edamontology.org/EDAM_1.25-20260626T1230Z
Languages en en-us
Reused by (7)
GENEPIO MCRO NGBO ONS SRAO SWO VALUESETS
Also registered as
agroportal: EDAM biodivportal: EDAM bioportal: EDAM fairsharing: FAIRsharing.a6r7zs ols: edam ontobee: EDAM tib.ts: edam
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt113+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY-SA 4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)1.25 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
- ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
- Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
- Recency2026-06-27 → 3.9 months (≤ 6 months)+8
- Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies7: genepio, mcro, ngbo, ons, srao, swo…+2
- Community signalmax(stars 151 → 4, citations 10 → 1)+4
- Time since last activity0.3 years → 4 × max(0, 0.3 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 37/48 · earned 53/100 = 53/100 → grade D
Community adoption 0
No adopting projects documented yet.
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History & changes 1 run
History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC | 53 D | 37 | 1.25 | 3,539 | JSON |
Provenance
Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 200) | edamontology.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | raw.githubusercontent.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| Artefact header (version IRI) | raw.githubusercontent.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 3a6e2ca, latest tag 1.25.20260626T1230Z) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| OLS classes, imports, version & release | ebi.ac.uk | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| TIB Terminology Service metrics | service.tib.eu | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.7490/f1000research.1118900.1) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- EDAM: an ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats (2013) · doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt113
- EDAM: the bioscientific data analysis ontology (update 2021) (2021) · doi:10.7490/f1000research.1118900.1 · 10 citations