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. 2014 Jan 10;15(Suppl 1):S2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-S1-S2

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Intended interactions between EDAM ontology and BioXSD schema. The semantics layer supports searching by end users, as well as automated reasoning. Both these tasks leverage shared ontologies. The syntax layer supports actual interoperability between tools, as well as programmatic access; both tasks leveraging common exchange formats and schema. The two layers are made consistent by a proper ontology based annotation of data and services.