Table 1 Existential Ruleforms
From: Ultra-Structure database design methodology for managing systems biology data and analyses
Ruleform | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
BioEntity | Things that participate in biological processes or are otherwise of biological interest | amino acids, chromosomes, gene annotations |
Resource | A source of information in the system | people, lab groups, software, books, output files of computational analyses |
Event | Instances of some process or occurrence | experiments, software invocations, biological processes |
Attribute | Facets of entities that are of in terest | mass, length, atomic number, statistical scores, GenBank accession number |
Relationship | Binary relationships (predicates) that can exist between entities of the system | is-a, part-of, has-exon, overlaps |
Location | General idea of a location or address; where an entity can be found in a variety of spaces | genomic locations, lab freezer locations, intracellular locations, geographic coordinates |
Location Context | A location space; the framework in which a Location can sensibly be interpreted | 18th draft human genome coordinate, 17th draft human genome coordinate, Giddings Lab freezer, Earth latitude and longitude |
Unit | A unit of measurement | dalton, kilogram, meter |