Format

http://edamontology.org/format_1915

A defined way or layout of representing and structuring data in a computer file, blob, string, message, or elsewhere.

Synonyms: Data format, Exchange format, File format

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formats, edam

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beta12orEarlier

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The main focus in EDAM lies on formats as means of structuring data exchanged between different tools or resources. The serialisation, compression, or encoding of concrete data formats/models is not in scope of EDAM. Format 'is format of' Data.

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Data model

notRecommendedForAnnotation

true

seeAlso

http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#MachineLanguage, http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#Continuant, http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite.owl#quality, http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#Quality, "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/format", http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#Quality, "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000098", http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Perpetuant, http://wsio.org/compression_004, http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000618, http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000612, http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl#Symbol_structure, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats

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