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Slot: experimental factor (experimental_factor)

Experimental factors are essentially the variable aspects of an experiment design which can be used to describe an experiment, or set of experiments, in an increasingly detailed manner. This field accepts ontology terms from Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) and/or Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI). For a browser of EFO (v 2.95) terms, please see http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/EFO; for a browser of OBI (v 2018-02-12) terms please see http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/OBI

URI: MIXS:0000008

Inheritance

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Biosample Biological source material which can be characterized by an experiment no

Properties

Aliases

  • experimental factor

Examples

Value
time series design [EFO:EFO_0001779]

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property value
expected_value text or EFO and/or OBI

Schema Source

LinkML Source

name: experimental_factor
annotations:
  expected_value:
    tag: expected_value
    value: text or EFO and/or OBI
description: Experimental factors are essentially the variable aspects of an experiment
  design which can be used to describe an experiment, or set of experiments, in an
  increasingly detailed manner. This field accepts ontology terms from Experimental
  Factor Ontology (EFO) and/or Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI). For a
  browser of EFO (v 2.95) terms, please see http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/EFO;
  for a browser of OBI (v 2018-02-12) terms please see http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/OBI
title: experimental factor
examples:
- value: time series design [EFO:EFO_0001779]
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
aliases:
- experimental factor
rank: 1000
is_a: investigation field
string_serialization: '{termLabel} {[termID]}|{text}'
slot_uri: MIXS:0000008
alias: experimental_factor
domain_of:
- Biosample
range: ControlledTermValue
multivalued: false