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Class: Pathway (DEPRECATED)

A pathway is a sequence of steps/reactions carried out by an organism or community of organisms

URI: nmdc:Pathway

classDiagram class Pathway click Pathway href "../Pathway" FunctionalAnnotationTerm <|-- Pathway click FunctionalAnnotationTerm href "../FunctionalAnnotationTerm" Pathway : alternative_identifiers Pathway : alternative_names Pathway : definition Pathway : description Pathway : id Pathway : is_obsolete Pathway : is_root Pathway : name Pathway : relations Pathway --> "*" OntologyRelation : relations click OntologyRelation href "../OntologyRelation" Pathway : type

Inheritance

Slots

Name Cardinality and Range Description Inheritance
alternative_names *
String
A list of alternative names used to refer to the entity OntologyClass
relations *
OntologyRelation
OntologyClass
definition 0..1
String
The definition of the ontology term as provided by the ontology OntologyClass
is_obsolete 0..1
Boolean
A boolean value indicating whether the ontology term is obsolete OntologyClass
is_root 0..1
Boolean
A boolean value indicating whether the ontology term is a root term; it is no... OntologyClass
id 1
Uriorcurie
A unique identifier for a thing NamedThing
name 0..1
String
A human readable label for an entity NamedThing
description 0..1
String
a human-readable description of a thing NamedThing
alternative_identifiers *
Uriorcurie
A list of alternative identifiers for the entity NamedThing
type 1
Uriorcurie
the class_uri of the class that has been instantiated NamedThing

Aliases

  • biological process
  • metabolic pathway
  • signaling pathway

Identifier and Mapping Information

Valid ID Prefixes

Instances of this class should have identifiers with one of the following prefixes:

  • KEGG_PATHWAY

  • COG

Schema Source

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
exact biolink:Pathway

LinkML Source

Direct

name: Pathway
id_prefixes:
- KEGG_PATHWAY
- COG
description: A pathway is a sequence of steps/reactions carried out by an organism
  or community of organisms
deprecated: not used. 2024-07-10 https://github.com/microbiomedata/nmdc-schema/issues/1881
todos:
- If we reverted to including Reaction in the schema, then a Reaction would be a reasonable
  part_of a Pathway
- is Pathway instantiated in an MongoDB collection? Aren't Pathways searchable in
  the Data Portal?
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
aliases:
- biological process
- metabolic pathway
- signaling pathway
exact_mappings:
- biolink:Pathway
is_a: FunctionalAnnotationTerm
class_uri: nmdc:Pathway

Induced

name: Pathway
id_prefixes:
- KEGG_PATHWAY
- COG
description: A pathway is a sequence of steps/reactions carried out by an organism
  or community of organisms
deprecated: not used. 2024-07-10 https://github.com/microbiomedata/nmdc-schema/issues/1881
todos:
- If we reverted to including Reaction in the schema, then a Reaction would be a reasonable
  part_of a Pathway
- is Pathway instantiated in an MongoDB collection? Aren't Pathways searchable in
  the Data Portal?
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
aliases:
- biological process
- metabolic pathway
- signaling pathway
exact_mappings:
- biolink:Pathway
is_a: FunctionalAnnotationTerm
attributes:
  alternative_names:
    name: alternative_names
    description: A list of alternative names used to refer to the entity. The distinction
      between name and alternative names is application-specific.
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    exact_mappings:
    - dcterms:alternative
    - skos:altLabel
    rank: 1000
    alias: alternative_names
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - OntologyClass
    - Study
    range: string
    multivalued: true
  relations:
    name: relations
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    rank: 1000
    alias: relations
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - OntologyClass
    range: OntologyRelation
    multivalued: true
    inlined: true
    inlined_as_list: true
  definition:
    name: definition
    description: The definition of the ontology term as provided by the ontology.
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    rank: 1000
    alias: definition
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - OntologyClass
    range: string
  is_obsolete:
    name: is_obsolete
    description: A boolean value indicating whether the ontology term is obsolete.
    comments:
    - If true (the ontology term is declared obsolete via the ontology source itself),  the
      term is no longer considered a valid term to use in an annotation at NMDC, and
      it no longer has ontology_relation_set records.
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    rank: 1000
    alias: is_obsolete
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - OntologyClass
    range: boolean
  is_root:
    name: is_root
    description: A boolean value indicating whether the ontology term is a root term;
      it is not a subclass of  any other term.
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    rank: 1000
    alias: is_root
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - OntologyClass
    range: boolean
  id:
    name: id
    description: A unique identifier for a thing. Must be either a CURIE shorthand
      for a URI or a complete URI
    notes:
    - The identifiers for terms from external ontologies can't have their ids constrained
      to the nmdc namespace
    examples:
    - value: nmdc:mgmag-00-x012.1_7_c1
      description: https://github.com/microbiomedata/nmdc-schema/pull/499#discussion_r1018499248
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    structured_aliases:
      workflow_execution_id:
        literal_form: workflow_execution_id
        predicate: NARROW_SYNONYM
        contexts:
        - https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/jgi-jat/macros/nmdc_metadata.yaml
      data_object_id:
        literal_form: data_object_id
        predicate: NARROW_SYNONYM
        contexts:
        - https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/jgi-jat/macros/nmdc_metadata.yaml
    rank: 1000
    identifier: true
    alias: id
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - NamedThing
    range: uriorcurie
    required: true
    pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+:[a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9_\-\/\.,]*$
  name:
    name: name
    description: A human readable label for an entity
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    rank: 1000
    alias: name
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - PersonValue
    - NamedThing
    - Protocol
    range: string
  description:
    name: description
    description: a human-readable description of a thing
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    rank: 1000
    slot_uri: dcterms:description
    alias: description
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - ImageValue
    - NamedThing
    range: string
  alternative_identifiers:
    name: alternative_identifiers
    description: A list of alternative identifiers for the entity.
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    rank: 1000
    alias: alternative_identifiers
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - MetaboliteIdentification
    - NamedThing
    range: uriorcurie
    multivalued: true
    pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+:[a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9_\-\/\.,\(\)\=\#]*$
  type:
    name: type
    description: the class_uri of the class that has been instantiated
    notes:
    - makes it easier to read example data files
    - required for polymorphic MongoDB collections
    examples:
    - value: nmdc:Biosample
    - value: nmdc:Study
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
    see_also:
    - https://github.com/microbiomedata/nmdc-schema/issues/1048
    - https://github.com/microbiomedata/nmdc-schema/issues/1233
    - https://github.com/microbiomedata/nmdc-schema/issues/248
    structured_aliases:
      workflow_execution_class:
        literal_form: workflow_execution_class
        predicate: NARROW_SYNONYM
        contexts:
        - https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/jgi-jat/macros/nmdc_metadata.yaml
    rank: 1000
    slot_uri: rdf:type
    designates_type: true
    alias: type
    owner: Pathway
    domain_of:
    - EukEval
    - FunctionalAnnotationAggMember
    - PeptideQuantification
    - ProteinQuantification
    - MobilePhaseSegment
    - PortionOfSubstance
    - MagBin
    - MetaboliteIdentification
    - GenomeFeature
    - FunctionalAnnotation
    - AttributeValue
    - NamedThing
    - OntologyRelation
    - FailureCategorization
    - Protocol
    - CreditAssociation
    - Doi
    range: uriorcurie
    required: true
class_uri: nmdc:Pathway