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