[Open-bio-l] [EMBOSS] Common Sample Data Collection, was: SCF files (Staden)

[Peter Cock]

I just checked with Jon and he was happy to forward this back to
the list, and also added a couple of URLs that I'd asked about:

http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/44600
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=EDAM

Peter

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jon Ison <jison at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Peter (and Peter)
>
> Just a quick note to say that all (well, nearly all) common bioinformatics data formats are
> catalogued in the EDAM ontology:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/edamontology/files
> http://edamontology.sourceforge.net/
>
> OK - there's bound to be some we've missed :)
>
> Anyhow, I thought it might help to structure any effort to document data formats (an effort which
> I wholeheartedly approve of by the way).  One thing I'd like to add to the EDAM "format"
> definitions is a link to the format specification, or failing that, an example.
>
> Cheers both
>
> Jon
>