Slot: description

a human-readable description of an entity

URI: [dct:description](http://purl.org/dc/terms/description) ## Applicable Classes | Name | Description | Modifies Slot | | --- | --- | --- | | [Attribute](Attribute.md) | A property or characteristic of an entity | no | | [Entity](Entity.md) | Root Biolink Model class for all things and informational relationships, real... | no | | [NamedThing](NamedThing.md) | a databased entity or concept/class | no | | [OrganismTaxon](OrganismTaxon.md) | A classification of a set of organisms | no | | [StudyResult](StudyResult.md) | A collection of data items from a study that are about a particular study sub... | no | | [RelativeFrequencyAnalysisResult](RelativeFrequencyAnalysisResult.md) | A result of a relative frequency analysis | no | | [InformationContentEntity](InformationContentEntity.md) | a piece of information that typically describes some topic of discourse or is... | no | | [Dataset](Dataset.md) | an item that refers to a collection of data from a data source | no | | [PhysicalEntity](PhysicalEntity.md) | An entity that has material reality (a | no | | [Activity](Activity.md) | An activity is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or w... | no | | [Procedure](Procedure.md) | A series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner | no | | [MaterialSample](MaterialSample.md) | A sample is a limited quantity of something (e | no | | [BiologicalEntity](BiologicalEntity.md) | | no | | [Gene](Gene.md) | A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to... | no | | [Genome](Genome.md) | A genome is the sum of genetic material within a cell or virion | no | | [Cell](Cell.md) | A single cell observation in the taxonomy; corresponds to one row in the obs ... | no | | [CellTypeSet](CellTypeSet.md) | A named annotation level in the taxonomy hierarchy (e | no | | [CellTypeTaxon](CellTypeTaxon.md) | A node in the cell type taxonomy representing a unit of cell type classificat... | no | | [CellTypeTaxonomy](CellTypeTaxonomy.md) | A systematic classification of cell types and their hierarchical relationship... | no | | [ClusterSet](ClusterSet.md) | The set of clusters produced by a single clustering run | no | | [Cluster](Cluster.md) | A single cluster resulting from a clustering algorithm; groups cells with sim... | no | | [ExpressionMatrix](ExpressionMatrix.md) | A cell-by-gene matrix of molecular measurements | no | | [Embedding](Embedding.md) | A dimensionality reduction of the cell-by-gene matrix (e | no | | [VersionedNamedThing](VersionedNamedThing.md) | An iteration of the biolink:NamedThing class that stores metadata about the o... | no | | [Checksum](Checksum.md) | Checksum values associated with digital entities | no | | [GeneAnnotation](GeneAnnotation.md) | Represents a single gene | no | | [GenomeAnnotation](GenomeAnnotation.md) | Represents a genome annotation | no | | [GenomeAssembly](GenomeAssembly.md) | Represents a genome assembly | no | | [ImageDataset](ImageDataset.md) | An image dataset is versioned release of a multidimensional regular grid of m... | no | | [AnatomicalSpace](AnatomicalSpace.md) | An anatomical space is versioned release of a mathematical space with a defin... | no | | [ParcellationTerminology](ParcellationTerminology.md) | A parcellation terminology is a versioned release set of terms that can be us... | no | | [ParcellationTermSet](ParcellationTermSet.md) | A parcellation term set is the set of parcellation terms within a specific pa... | no | | [ParcellationTerm](ParcellationTerm.md) | A parcellation term is an individual term within a specific parcellation term... | no | | [ParcellationColorScheme](ParcellationColorScheme.md) | A parcellation color scheme is a versioned release color palette that can be ... | no | | [AnatomicalAnnotationSet](AnatomicalAnnotationSet.md) | An anatomical annotation set is a versioned release of a set of anatomical an... | no | | [ParcellationAtlas](ParcellationAtlas.md) | A parcellation atlas is a versioned release reference used to guide experimen... | no | ## Properties ### Type and Range | Property | Value | | --- | --- | | Range | [NarrativeText](NarrativeText.md) | | Domain Of | [Entity](Entity.md), [Attribute](Attribute.md), [NamedThing](NamedThing.md), [OrganismTaxon](OrganismTaxon.md), [StudyResult](StudyResult.md), [RelativeFrequencyAnalysisResult](RelativeFrequencyAnalysisResult.md), [InformationContentEntity](InformationContentEntity.md), [Dataset](Dataset.md), [PhysicalEntity](PhysicalEntity.md), [Activity](Activity.md), [Procedure](Procedure.md), [MaterialSample](MaterialSample.md), [BiologicalEntity](BiologicalEntity.md), [Gene](Gene.md), [Genome](Genome.md) | | Slot URI | [dct:description](http://purl.org/dc/terms/description) | ### Cardinality and Requirements | Property | Value | | --- | --- | ### Slot Characteristics | Property | Value | | --- | --- | | Owner | [Entity](Entity.md) | ## In Subsets * [TranslatorMinimal](TranslatorMinimal.md) ## Aliases * definition ## Identifier and Mapping Information ### Schema Source * from schema: https://w3id.org/brain-bican/cell-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/cell-taxonomy
aliases:
- definition
mappings:
- dct:description
exact_mappings:
- IAO:0000115
- skos:definitions
narrow_mappings:
- gff3:Description
rank: 1000
slot_uri: dct:description
owner: entity
domain_of:
- entity
- 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