Class: biological entity

URI: http://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/BiologicalEntity

Mappings

• WD:Q28845870

  Inheritance

• is_a: NamedThing - a databased entity or concept/class

  Children

• BiologicalProcessOrActivity - Either an individual molecular activity, or a collection of causally connected molecular activities
• DiseaseOrPhenotypicFeature - Either one of a disease or an individual phenotypic feature. Some knowledge resources such as Monarch treat these as distinct, others such as MESH conflate.
• Environment - A feature of the environment of an organism that influences one or more phenotypic features of that organism, potentially mediated by genes
• MolecularEntity - A gene, gene product, small molecule or macromolecule (including protein complex)
• OrganismalEntity - A named entity that is either a part of an organism, a whole organism, population or clade of organisms, excluding molecular entities

  Used in

Fields

• has phenotype subsets: (translator_minimal)
  • Description: holds between a biological entity and a phenotype, where a phenotype is construed broadly as any kind of quality of an organism part, a collection of these qualities, or a change in quality or qualities (e.g. abnormally increased temperature).
  • range: Phenotype
  • Local
• category subsets: (translator_minimal)
  • Description: Name of the high level ontology class in which this entity is categorized. Corresponds to the label for the biolink entity type class. In a neo4j database this MAY correspond to the neo4j label tag
  • range: IriType*
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• description subsets: (translator_minimal)
  • Description: a human-readable description of a thing
  • range: NarrativeText
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• full name
  • Description: a long-form human readable name for a thing
  • range: LabelType
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• id subsets: (translator_minimal)
  • Description: A unique identifier for a thing. Must be either a CURIE shorthand for a URI or a complete URI
  • range: IdentifierType
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• iri subsets: (translator_minimal)
  • Description: An IRI for the node. This is determined by the id using expansion rules.
  • range: IriType
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• name subsets: (translator_minimal)
  • Description: A human-readable name for a thing
  • range: LabelType
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• node property
  • Description: A grouping for any property that holds between a node and a value
  • range: string
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• related to
  • Description: A grouping for any relationship type that holds between any two things
  • range: NamedThing
  • inherited from: NamedThing
• systematic synonym
  • Description: more commonly used for gene symbols in yeast
  • range: LabelType
  • inherited from: NamedThing