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Slot: description

a human-readable description of an entity

URI: dct:description

Applicable Classes

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