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Slot: environmental medium (env_medium)

Report the environmental material(s) immediately surrounding the sample or specimen at the time of sampling. We recommend using subclasses of 'environmental material' (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00010483). EnvO documentation about how to use the field: https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/wiki/Using-ENVO-with-MIxS . Terms from other OBO ontologies are permissible as long as they reference mass/volume nouns (e.g. air, water, blood) and not discrete, countable entities (e.g. a tree, a leaf, a table top).

URI: MIXS:0000014

Inheritance

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Biosample Biological source material which can be characterized by an experiment yes

Properties

Aliases

  • environmental medium

Examples

Value
soil [ENVO:00001998]; Annotating a fish swimming in the upper 100 m of the Atlantic Ocean, consider: ocean water [ENVO:00002151]. Example: Annotating a duck on a pond consider: pond water [ENVO:00002228]

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property value
expected_value The material displaced by the entity at time of sampling. Recommend subclasses of environmental material [ENVO:00010483].

Schema Source

LinkML Source

name: env_medium
annotations:
  expected_value:
    tag: expected_value
    value: The material displaced by the entity at time of sampling. Recommend subclasses
      of environmental material [ENVO:00010483].
  tooltip:
    tag: tooltip
    value: The predominant environmental material or substrate that directly surrounds
      or hosts the sample or specimen at the time of sampling. Choose values from
      subclasses of the 'environmental material' class [ENVO:00010483] in the Environment
      Ontology (ENVO). Values for this field should be measurable or mass material
      nouns, representing continuous environmental materials. For host-associated
      or plant-associated samples, use terms from the UBERON or Plant Ontology to
      indicate a tissue, organ, or plant structure
description: 'Report the environmental material(s) immediately surrounding the sample
  or specimen at the time of sampling. We recommend using subclasses of ''environmental
  material'' (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00010483). EnvO documentation about
  how to use the field: https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/wiki/Using-ENVO-with-MIxS
  . Terms from other OBO ontologies are permissible as long as they reference mass/volume
  nouns (e.g. air, water, blood) and not discrete, countable entities (e.g. a tree,
  a leaf, a table top).'
title: environmental medium
examples:
- value: 'soil [ENVO:00001998]; Annotating a fish swimming in the upper 100 m of the
    Atlantic Ocean, consider: ocean water [ENVO:00002151]. Example: Annotating a duck
    on a pond consider: pond water [ENVO:00002228]|air [ENVO_00002005]'
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
aliases:
- environmental medium
rank: 1000
is_a: environment field
string_serialization: '{termLabel} {[termID]}'
slot_uri: MIXS:0000014
alias: env_medium
domain_of:
- Biosample
range: ControlledIdentifiedTermValue
multivalued: false