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eco |
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Evidence and Conclusion Ontology |
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ECO Browser |
ECO |
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github |
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orcid |
mgiglio@som.umaryland.edu |
mgiglio99 |
Michelle Giglio |
0000-0001-7628-5565 |
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https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/12802432 |
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An ontology for experimental and other evidence statements. |
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investigations |
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https://www.evidenceontology.org |
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ECO |
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ECO: the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, an update for 2022. |
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ECO, the Evidence & Conclusion Ontology: community standard for evidence information. |
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Standardized description of scientific evidence using the Evidence Ontology (ECO) |
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https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology |
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https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology/issues |
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ECO is used by the GO consortium for evidence on GO associations |
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annotations to transmembrane transport |
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annotation |
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publications |
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ECO is used by the Monarch Initiative for evidence types for disease to phenotype annotations. |
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Parkinsonism: Characteristic neurologic anomaly resulting form degeneration of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain, characterized clinically by shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait. |
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The Monarch Initiative: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species |
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The Evidence & Conclusion Ontology (ECO) describes types of scientific evidence within the realm of biological research that can arise from laboratory experiments, computational methods, manual literature curation, and other means. Researchers can use these types of evidence to support assertions about things (such as scientific conclusions, gene annotations, or other statements of fact) that result from scientific research.
ECO comprises two high-level classes, evidence and assertion method, where evidence is defined as “a type of information that is used to support an assertion,” and assertion method is defined as “a means by which a statement is made about an entity.” Together evidence and assertion method can be combined to describe both the support for an assertion and whether that assertion was made by a human being or a computer. However, ECO is not used to make the assertion itself; for that, one would use another ontology, free text description, or some other means.
ECO was originally created around the year 2000 to support gene product annotation by the Gene Ontology. Today ECO is used by dozens of biomedical resources to capture evidence associated with assertions in biocuration.
For advice on requesting new terms, please see the Evidence & Conclusion Ontology wiki.