definition
textual definition
definition
definition
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
The official OBI definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property. Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions.
The official definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property. Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions.
definition
PERSON:Daniel Schober
editor note
An administrative note intended for its editor. It may not be included in the publication version of the ontology, so it should contain nothing necessary for end users to understand the ontology.
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obfoundry.org/obo/obi>
PERSON:Daniel Schober
editor note
has curation status
OBI_0000281
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON:Bill Bug
PERSON:Melanie Courtot
has curation status
imported from
For external terms/classes, the ontology from which the term was imported
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON:Melanie Courtot
imported from
definition source
Discussion on obo-discuss mailing-list, see http://bit.ly/hgm99w
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
PERSON:Daniel Schober
definition source
formal citation, e.g. identifier in external database to indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. Free text indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. EXAMPLE: Author Name, URI, MeSH Term C04, PUBMED ID, Wiki uri on 31.01.2007
curator note
An administrative note of use for a curator but of no use for a user
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
curator note
term editor
20110707, MC: label update to term editor and definition modified accordingly. See http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=115.
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
Name of editor entering the term in the file. The term editor is a point of contact for information regarding the term. The term editor may be, but is not always, the author of the definition, which may have been worked upon by several people
PERSON:Daniel Schober
term editor
alternative term
An alternative name for a class or property which means the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent)
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
PERSON:Daniel Schober
alternative term
Source
Source
editor preferred label
editor preferred term
editor preferred term
editor preferred term~editor preferred label
editor preferred term~editor preferred label
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
PERSON:Daniel Schober
The concise, meaningful, and human-friendly name for a class or property preferred by the ontology developers. (US-English)
example of usage
A phrase describing how a class name should be used. May also include other kinds of examples that facilitate immediate understanding of a class semantics, such as widely known prototypical subclasses or instances of the class. Although essential for high level terms, examples for low level terms (e.g., Affymetrix HU133 array) are not
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
PERSON:Daniel Schober
example of usage
has_specified_input
8/17/09: specified inputs of one process are not necessarily specified inputs of a larger process that it is part of. This is in contrast to how 'has participant' works.
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
PERSON: Larry Hunter
PERSON: Melanie Coutot
A relation between a planned process and a continuant participating in that process that is not created during the process. The presence of the continuant during the process is explicitly specified in the plan specification which the process realizes the concretization of.
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
has_specified_input
see is_input_of example_of_usage
has_specified_output
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
PERSON: Larry Hunter
PERSON: Melanie Courtot
A relation between a planned process and a continuant participating in that process. The presence of the continuant at the end of the process is explicitly specified in the objective specification which the process realizes the concretization of.
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
has_specified_output
has participant
Has_participant is a primitive instance-level relation between a process, a continuant, and a time at which the continuant participates in some way in the process. The relation obtains, for example, when this particular process of oxygen exchange across this particular alveolar membrane has_participant this particular sample of hemoglobin at this particular time.
a relation between a process and a continuant, in which the continuant is somehow involved in the process
http://www.obofoundry.org/ro/#OBO_REL:has_participant
has participant
has_participant
this blood coagulation has participant this blood clot
this investigation has participant this investigator
this process has participant this input material (or this output material)
data item
2/2/2009 Alan and Bjoern discussing FACS run output data. This is a data item because it is about the cell population. Each element records an event and is typically further composed a set of measurment data items that record the fluorescent intensity stimulated by one of the lasers.
2014-03-31: See discussion at http://odontomachus.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/aboutness-objects-propositions/
2009-03-16: data item deliberatly ambiguous: we merged data set and datum to be one entity, not knowing how to define singular versus plural. So data item is more general than datum.
2009-03-16: removed datum as alternative term as datum specifically refers to singular form, and is thus not an exact synonym.
Data items include counts of things, analyte concentrations, and statistical summaries.
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert
PERSON: Jonathan Rees
a data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements.
data
data item
information content entity
2014-03-10: The use of "thing" is intended to be general enough to include universals and configurations (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/information-ontology/GBxvYZCk1oc/-L6B5fSBBTQJ).
A generically dependent continuant that is about some thing.
Examples of information content entites include journal articles, data, graphical layouts, and graphs.
OBI_0000142
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert
information content entity
textual entity
A textual entity is a part of a manifestation (FRBR sense), a generically dependent continuant whose concretizations are patterns of glyphs intended to be interpreted as words, formulas, etc.
AR, (IAO call 2009-09-01): a document as a whole is not typically a textual entity, because it has pictures in it - rather there are parts of it that are textual entities. Examples: The title, paragraph 2 sentence 7, etc.
MC, 2009-09-14 (following IAO call 2009-09-01): textual entities live at the FRBR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records) manifestation level. Everything is significant: line break, pdf and html versions of same document are different textual entities.
PERSON: Lawrence Hunter
Words, sentences, paragraphs, and the written (non-figure) parts of publications are all textual entities
text
textual entity
hypothesis textual entity
2009/09/28 Alan Ruttenberg. Fucoidan-use-case
A textual entity that expresses an assertion that is intended to be tested.
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
hypothesis textual entity
that fucoidan has a small statistically significant effect on AT3 level but no useful clinical effect as in-vivo anticoagulant, a paraphrase of part of the last paragraph of the discussion section of the paper 'Pilot clinical study to evaluate the anticoagulant activity of fucoidan', by Lowenthal et. al.PMID:19696660
planned process
'Plan' includes a future direction sense. That can be problematic if plans are changed during their execution. There are however implicit contingencies for protocols that an agent has in his mind that can be considered part of the plan, even if the agent didn't have them in mind before. Therefore, a planned process can diverge from what the agent would have said the plan was before executing it, by adjusting to problems encountered during execution (e.g. choosing another reagent with equivalent properties, if the originally planned one has run out.)
6/11/9: Edited at workshop. Used to include: is initiated by an agent
Bjoern Peters
Injecting mice with a vaccine in order to test its efficacy
branch derived
A processual entity that realizes a plan which is the concretization of a plan specification.
This class merges the previously separated objective driven process and planned process, as they the separation proved hard to maintain. (1/22/09, branch call)
planned process
processed material
Examples include gel matrices, filter paper, parafilm and buffer solutions, mass spectrometer, tissue samples
Is a material entity that is created or changed during material processing.
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
processed material
patient role
patient
CDISC definition: patient. Person under a physician's care for a particular disease or condition. NOTE: A subject in a clinical trial is not necessarily a patient, but a patient in a clinical trial is a subject. See also subject, trial subject, healthy volunteer. Often used interchangeably
GROUP:Role Branch
OBI, CDISC
a hospitalized person; a person with controlled diabetes; the patient's role http://www.fertilityjourney.com/testingAndDiagnosis/theRightDoctor/thePatientsRole/index.asp?C=55245395146924652778
a role which inheres in a person and is realized by the process of being under the care of a physician or health care provider
patient role
material processing
A cell lysis, production of a cloning vector, creating a buffer.
PERSON: Frank Gibson
PERSON: Jennifer Fostel
PERSON: Melanie Courtot
PERSON: Philippe Rocca Serra
A planned process which results in physical changes in a specified input material
OBI branch derived
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
material processing
material transformation
adding a material entity into a target
BP
Class was renamed from 'administering substance', as this is commonly used only for additions into organisms.
Injecting a drug into a mouse. Adding IL-2 to a cell culture. Adding NaCl into water.
branch derived
adding a material entity into a target
is a process with the objective to place a material entity bearing the 'material to be added role' into a material bearing the 'target of material addition role'.
material to be added role
9 March 09 from discussion with PA branch
OBI
Role Branch
drug added to a buffer contained in a tube; substance injected into an animal;
material to be added role
material to be added role is a protocol participant role realized by a material which is added into a material bearing the target of material addition role in a material addition process
target of material addition role
From Branch discussion with BP, AR, MC -- there is a need for the recipient to interact with the administered material. for example, a tooth receiving a filling was not considered to be a target role.
GROUP: Role Branch
OBI
peritoneum of an animal receiving an interperitoneal injection; solution in a tube receiving additional material; location of absorbed material following a dermal application.
target of material addition role is a role realized by an entity into which a material is added in a material addition process
target of material addition role
material combination
Mixing two fluids. Adding salt into water. Injecting a mouse with PBS.
bp
bp
created at workshop as parent class for 'adding material into target', which is asymmetric, while combination encompasses all addition processes.
is a material processing with the objective to combine two or more material entities as input into a single material entity as output.
material combination
organism
10/21/09: This is a placeholder term, that should ideally be imported from the NCBI taxonomy, but the high level hierarchy there does not suit our needs (includes plasmids and 'other organisms')
GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch
A material entity that is an individual living system, such as animal, plant, bacteria or virus, that is capable of replicating or reproducing, growth and maintenance in the right environment. An organism may be unicellular or made up, like humans, of many billions of cells divided into specialized tissues and organs.
WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism
animal
fungus
organism
plant
virus
prediction
OBI
Philippe Rocca-Serra
Prediction of TF target sites based on atomistic models of protein-DNA complexes. BMC Bioinformatics. 2008 Oct 16;9(1):436. PMID: 18922190
a process by which an event or an entity is described before it actually happens or is being discovered and identified.
prediction
administering substance in vivo
2009-11-10. Tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2893050&group_id=177891&atid=886178
A process by which a substance is intentionally given to an organism resulting in exposure of the organism to that substance.
Balb/c mice received an intracameral or subconjunctival injection of trinitrophenylated spleen cells
Person:Bjoern Peters
Bjoern Peters
Different routes and means of administration should go as children underneath this
IEDB
administering substance in vivo
injecting mice with 10 ug morphine intranasally, a patient taking two pills of 1 mg aspirin orally
needs roles such as perturber and perturbee (children of input role). Perturb is too strong. Host might be the name for one role. Others considered: Doner, Donated, Acceptor.