EFO Experimental Factor Ontology

About the Experimental Factor Ontology

Developed by the EMBL-EBI Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies Team (SPOT).

Citing EFO

If you use EFO in your work, please cite the following publication:

Malone J, Holloway E, Adamusiak T, Kapushesky M, Zheng J, Kolesnikov N, Zhukova A, Brazma A, Parkinson H. Modeling Sample Variables with an Experimental Factor Ontology. Bioinformatics 2010, 26(8):1112–1118. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq099

This paper is available under an open access agreement from the Bioinformatics Journal.

If you are citing the ontology as used in an analysis, we also recommend citing the specific version. Version information can be found in the release notes and in the versionInfo property in the OWL file.

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Licence

EFO is released under the Apache 2.0 licence, subject to EMBL-EBI's Terms of Use.

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