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Slot: description

a human-readable description of an entity

URI: dct:description

Applicable Classes

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