The Evidence & Conclusion Ontology is developed on GitHub. If you are interested in getting involved and want to contribute to the project, we encourage you to contact us.

Download

Direct download of the ontology with a web browser:

https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology

You may download ECO ontology files using a web browser. For the most recent release, navigate to the GitHub repository and click on eco.obo or eco.owl. The full file will load into your browser. Next, click on “Raw” on the upper right side of the page and save according to your preferred method.

Raw files are here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology/master/eco.obo https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology/master/eco.owl

Command-line access for downloading the ontology

For those familiar with the command line, please download ECO from our GitHub repository using git: 

git clone https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology.git

Complete instructions are here: https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology/tree/master/editors

Releases

Here you can download the latest OWL and OBO release. Historical releases are also available for download.

v2022-05-27 latest release

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v2022-04-11

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v2022-02-09

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v2022-01-04

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v2021-12-03

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v2021-10-20

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v2020-11-08

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v2020-09-11

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v2020-08-07

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v2020-06-29

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v2020-06-26

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v2020-05-15

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v2020-05-01

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v2020-04-03

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v2020-03-06

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v2020-02-07

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v2020-01-08

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v2020-01-07

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This release contains a fix for #245 where three GO terms were incorrectly showing up in the OBO file.

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Develop

Command-line, GUI & IDE access for developers

If you are a developer already contributing to the ECO project, see complete instructions for checking out and editing here: https://github.com/evidenceontology/evidenceontology/tree/master/editors

If you are not a developer but would like to contribute, we’d love to hear from you! Please either submit a tracker issue request or contact the ECO team.