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Slot: description

a human-readable description of a thing

URI: dcterms:description

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Biosample Biological source material which can be characterized by an experiment no
BiosampleProcessing A process that takes one or more biosamples as inputs and generates one or mo... no
Site no
Extraction A material separation in which a desired component of an input material is se... no
LibraryPreparation no
CollectingBiosamplesFromSite no
Pathway A pathway is a sequence of steps/reactions carried out by an organism or comm... no
Reaction An individual biochemical transformation carried out by a functional unit of ... no
EnvironmentalMaterialTerm no
OntologyClass no
MaterialEntity no
ImageValue An attribute value representing an image no
DataObject An object that primarily consists of symbols that represent information yes
OrthologyGroup A set of genes or gene products in which all members are orthologous no
OmicsProcessing The methods and processes used to generate omics data from a biosample or org... no
PlannedProcess no
ChemicalEntity An atom or molecule that can be represented with a chemical formula no
FunctionalAnnotationTerm Abstract grouping class for any term/descriptor that can be applied to a func... no
FieldResearchSite A site, outside of a laboratory, from which biosamples may be collected no
NamedThing a databased entity or concept/class no
ProcessedSample no
AnalyticalSample no
FiltrationProcess The process of segregation of phases; e no
ChromatographicSeparationProcess The process of using a selective partitioning of the analyte or interferent b... no
Pooling physical combination of several instances of like material no
GeneProduct A molecule encoded by a gene that has an evolved function no
Study A study summarizes the overall goal of a research initiative and outlines the... yes
SubSamplingProcess Separating a sample aliquot from the starting material for downstream activit... no
MixingProcess The combining of components, particles or layers into a more homogeneous stat... no

Properties

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

LinkML Source

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
domain_of:
- Study
- NamedThing
- ImageValue
range: string