Standardized description of scientific evidence using the Evidence Ontology (ECO)

Marcus C Chibucos¹, Christopher J Mungall², Rama Balakrishnan²+6

• ¹Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Saccharomyces Genome Database, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD UK, Department of Epidemiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA and Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USAInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Saccharomyces Genome Database, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD UK, Department of Epidemiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA and Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA mchibucos@som.umaryland.edu.+2