About the Experimental Factor Ontology
Citing EFO
If you'd like to cite EFO please use 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 PDF
Related Links
- Semantic web work using EFO we are producing an RDF representation of functional genomics data.
- Functional Genomics Production Team are responsible for developing and maintaining EFO.
- Gene Expression Atlas at EBI is a semantically enriched database (using EFO) of meta-analysis based summary statistics over a curated subset of ArrayExpress Archive, servicing queries for condition-specific gene expression patterns as well as broader exploratory searches for biologically interesting genes/samples.
- ArrayExpress repository at EBI The ArrayExpress Archive is a database of functional genomics experiments including gene expression where you can query and download data collected to MIAME and MINSEQE standards. Gene Expression Atlas contains a subset of curated and re-annotated Archive data which can be queried for individual gene expression under different biological conditions across experiments.
More on EFO modelling
You can also learn more technical details about EFO by following this link on meta data, data model, ontologies we map to and process documentation.