EDAM - The ontology of data analysis and management

Last uploaded: November 12, 2025

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Acronym	EDAM
Visibility	Public
Description	EDAM is a domain ontology of data analysis and data management in bio- and other sciences, and science-based applications. It comprises concepts related to analysis, modelling, optimisation, and data life cycle. Targetting usability by diverse users, the structure of EDAM is relatively simple, divided into 4 main sections: Topic, Operation, Data (incl. Identifier), and Format. EDAM is particularly suitable for semantic annotations and categorisation of diverse resources related to data analysis and management: e.g. tools, workflows, learning materials, or standards. EDAM is also useful in data management itself, for recording provenance metadata of processed data. As a reference citation, please use https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1118900.1
Status	Production
Format	OWL
Categories	Other All Organisms Genomic and Proteomic Vocabularies Biomedical Resources

Bibliographic reference	https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1118900.1 https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1118900.1
Contact	Git Hub Repository (https://github.com/edamontology/edamontology) Hervé Ménager ([email protected]) Matúš Kalaš ([email protected])
Creation date	November 12, 2025
Documentation	http://edamontology.org/page See more...
Formality level	http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology
Generic type	http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#DomainOntology http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#DomainOntology
Has part (has views)	http://edamontology.org/identifiers http://edamontology.org/identifiers http://edamontology.org/obsolete http://edamontology.org/obsolete http://edamontology.org/properties http://edamontology.org/properties http://edamontology.org/bio http://edamontology.org/bio http://edamontology.org/data http://edamontology.org/data http://edamontology.org/formats http://edamontology.org/formats http://edamontology.org/events http://edamontology.org/events http://edamontology.org/topics http://edamontology.org/topics http://edamontology.org/operations http://edamontology.org/operations
Homepage	http://edamontology.org See more...
License
Logo	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edamontology/edamontology/main/EDAM-logo-square.svg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edamontology/edamontology/main/EDAM-logo-square.svg
Modification date	November 12, 2025
Prior version	http://edamontology.org/1.25 http://edamontology.org/1.25
Root of obsolete branch	http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
Submission date	November 12, 2025
Syntax	http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/rdf+xml http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/rdf+xml
Version IRI	http://edamontology.org/1.25-20251112T1620Z-unstable(1.26) http://edamontology.org/1.25-20251112T1620Z-unstable(1.26)
Version information	1.25-20251112T1620Z-unstable(1.26) See more...
uri	http://edamontology.org http://edamontology.org

Version	Released	Uploaded	Downloads
1.25-20251112T1620Z-unstable(1.26) (Parsed, Indexed, Metrics, Annotator)	11/12/2025	11/12/2025	OWL \| CSV \| RDF/XML \| Diff
1.25 (Archived)	06/18/2020	06/18/2020	OWL \| Diff
1.24 (Archived)	01/16/2020	01/16/2020	OWL
1.24-PRERELEASE (Archived)	01/14/2020	01/14/2020	OWL
1.23 (Archived)	07/16/2019	07/16/2019	OWL \| Diff
1.22 (Archived)	05/14/2019	05/12/2019	OWL \| Diff
1.21 (Archived)	07/31/2018	07/30/2018	OWL \| Diff
1.20 (Archived)	12/31/2017	12/15/2017	OWL \| Diff
1.19 (Archived)	10/31/2017	10/30/2017	OWL \| Diff
1.18 (Archived)	07/04/2017	07/06/2017	OWL \| Diff
1.17 (Archived)	04/27/2017	04/28/2017	OWL \| Diff
1.16 (Archived)	10/31/2016	11/01/2016	OWL \| Diff
1.15 (Archived)	05/16/2016	05/16/2016	OWL \| Diff
1.14 (Archived)	02/26/2016	02/26/2016	OWL \| Diff
1.13 (Archived)	02/09/2016	02/08/2016	OWL \| Diff
1.12 (Archived)	12/18/2015	01/06/2016	OWL \| Diff
1.11 (Archived)	07/09/2015	07/09/2015	OWL \| Diff
1.10 (Archived)	07/03/2015	07/03/2015	OWL \| Diff
1.10 (Archived)	07/03/2015	07/03/2015	OWL \| Diff
1.9 (Archived)	02/02/2015	02/02/2015	OWL \| Diff
1.8 (Archived)	12/16/2014	12/16/2014	OWL \| Diff
1.7 (Archived)	12/08/2014	12/08/2014	OWL \| Diff
1.6 (Archived)	11/18/2014	11/18/2014	OWL \| Diff
1.5 (Archived)	11/14/2014	11/14/2014	OWL \| Diff
1.4 (Archived)	10/06/2014	09/26/2014	OWL \| Diff
1.3 (Archived)	02/20/2014	02/18/2014	OWL \| Diff
1.2 (Archived)	12/14/2012	12/14/2012	OWL \| Diff
1.1 (Archived)	07/05/2012	12/10/2012	OBO \| Diff
1 (Archived)	01/13/2012	01/20/2012	OBO
Beta13 (Archived)	12/05/2011	12/05/2011	OBO
beta12 (Archived)	06/17/2011	06/17/2011	OBO
beta11 (Archived)	01/22/2011	01/22/2011	OBO
beta10 (Archived)	07/10/2010	12/01/2010	OBO
beta09 (Archived)	07/10/2010	10/07/2010	OBO
beta08 (Archived)	05/28/2010	08/18/2010	OBO
beta07 (Archived)	05/28/2010	05/28/2010	OBO
beta05 (Archived)	06/11/2010	05/14/2010	OBO
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Biomedical Topics Ontology: An ontology of biological and biomedical topics, created from merging the EDAM Topics sub-ontology with auxiliary topics that are out of scope of EDAM.
EDAM Topics Subset: An ontology of bioinformatics, biological and biomedical topics (EDAM Topics)

Classes	3,524
Individuals	3
Properties	13
Maximum depth	8
Maximum number of children	1,120
Average number of children	7
Classes with a single child	165
Classes with more than 25 children	15
Classes with no definition	1

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Common Workflow Language

Computational Biology Institute of Montpellier