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).

EDAM 是一个涵盖通用生物信息学概念的本体，包括主题、数据类型、格式、标识符和操作等方面。EDAM 提供了一个受控词汇表，用于以语义术语描述诸如：网络服务（例如 WSDL 文件）、应用程序、工具集合和软件包、工作台和工作流程软件、数据库和本体、XSD 数据架构和数据对象、数据语法和文件格式、网络门户和页面、资源目录和文档（如科学出版物）等事物。