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Slot: description

a human-readable description of an entity

URI: dct:description

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Attribute A property or characteristic of an entity no
ParcellationAtlas A parcellation atlas is a versioned release reference used to guide experimen... no
ParcellationColorScheme A parcellation color scheme is a versioned release color palette that can be ... no
PhysicalEntity An entity that has material reality (a no
OrganismTaxon A classification of a set of organisms no
RelativeFrequencyAnalysisResult A result of a relative frequency analysis no
Activity An activity is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or w... no
AnatomicalAnnotationSet An anatomical annotation set is a versioned release of a set of anatomical an... no
ColorPalette A schematic set of display colors that can be applied to individual component... yes
GenomeAssembly Represents a genome assembly no
ObservationMatrixCreationProcess The process of aggregating data to create an observation matrix (potentially ... no
Dataset an item that refers to a collection of data from a data source no
InformationContentEntity a piece of information that typically describes some topic of discourse or is... no
Entity Root Biolink Model class for all things and informational relationships, real... no
CellTypeTaxonomy A cell type taxonomy is a systematic classification of cell types and their h... yes
MaterialSample A sample is a limited quantity of something (e no
MatrixFile A digital file containing the representation of full or partial data matrix no
GeneAnnotation Represents a single gene no
VersionedNamedThing An iteration of the biolink:NamedThing class that stores metadata about the o... no
SpatialProportions Spatial distribution of expression, labeling, or anatomical density of a give... no
Procedure A series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner no
AnatomicalSpace An anatomical space is versioned release of a mathematical space with a defin... no
ObservationRow One specific row of the observation matrix representing a set of measurements... no
Gene A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to... no
Checksum Checksum values associated with digital entities no
Cluster One specific cluster from the set of clusters determined by a clustering proc... no
Genome A genome is the sum of genetic material within a cell or virion no
BiologicalEntity no
ImageDataset An image dataset is versioned release of a multidimensional regular grid of m... no
CellTypeSet A grouping of cell type taxons yes
CellTypeTaxonomyCreationProcess The process of organizing cells or clusters into a systematic classification ... no
ParcellationTerm A parcellation term is an individual term within a specific parcellation term... no
ParcellationTerminology A parcellation terminology is a versioned release set of terms that can be us... no
NamedThing a databased entity or concept/class no
DisplayColor One element of a color palette representing the association between a color a... no
ParcellationTermSet A parcellation term set is the set of parcellation terms within a specific pa... no
ObservationMatrix A matrix (potentially virtual) of observations no
StudyResult A collection of data items from a study that are about a particular study sub... no
Abbreviation Maps an abbreviation string to its decoded meaning no
GenomeAnnotation Represents a genome annotation no
ClusterSet The output of a clustering process where input observations are organized or ... yes
CellTypeTaxon A cell type taxon is a node in a taxonomy yes
ClusteringProcess The process of organizing and classifying observations into groups or cluster... no
CellSpecimen ( defined as in BERS) no

Properties

Aliases

  • definition

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/brain-bican/bke-taxonomy

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self dct:description
native bican:description
exact IAO:0000115, skos:definitions
narrow gff3:Description
undefined dct:description

LinkML Source

name: description
definition_uri: https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/description
description: a human-readable description of an entity
in_subset:
- translator_minimal
from_schema: https://w3id.org/brain-bican/bke-taxonomy
aliases:
- definition
mappings:
- dct:description
exact_mappings:
- IAO:0000115
- skos:definitions
narrow_mappings:
- gff3:Description
rank: 1000
slot_uri: dct:description
alias: description
owner: entity
domain_of:
- entity
- CellTypeTaxonomy
- CellTypeSet
- CellTypeTaxon
- ClusterSet
- ColorPalette
- attribute
- named thing
- organism taxon
- study result
- relative frequency analysis result
- information content entity
- dataset
- physical entity
- activity
- procedure
- material sample
- biological entity
- gene
- genome
range: narrative text