Datatypes

Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO) term ID

ID eco_id

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Identifier of a term in the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, which classifies the kinds of evidence behind scientific statements, so that gene and protein annotations can say how they were made. It is ECO: and seven digits; OBO PURLs and Wikidata write ECO_ instead.

Categories
Scientific
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Bioregistry
eco
Wikidata
P3811
Quality
85/100 · missing: translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^ECO[:_]\d{7}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
ECO:0000269experimental evidence used in manual assertion
ECO:0007807protein localization evidence used in automatic assertion; Bioregistry example
ECO_0000269underscore form
ECO:269 invalidNot padded to seven digits

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