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object_category

URI: sssom:object_category

Applicable to: Mapping

Description

The conceptual category to which the subject belongs to. This can be a string denoting the category or a term from a controlled vocabulary. This slot is deliberately underspecified. Conceptual categories can range from those that are found in general upper ontologies such as BFO (e.g. process, temporal region, etc) to those that serve as upper ontologies in specific domains, such as COB or BioLink (e.g. gene, disease, chemical entity). The purpose of this optional field is documentation for human reviewers - when a category is known and documented clearly, the cost of interpreting and evaluating the mapping decreases.

Properties

  • Range: String. The range of the element is the type of the value that can be assigned to it.

  • Required?: Optional (You can add this element to the mapping or mapping set, but it is not required.)

Examples

Example: UBERON:0001062

Example value:

UBERON:0001062

Description: The CURIE of the Uberon term for "anatomical entity".

Example: anatomical entity

Example value:

anatomical entity

Description: A string, rather than ID, describing the "anatomical entity" category. This is possible, but less preferred than using an ID.

Example: biolink:Gene

Example value:

biolink:Gene

Description: The CURIE of the biolink class for genes.

See Also

These are some relevant resources you might find useful to get additional information about the element, such as example implementations, issues and pull requests.

Schema developer documentation

LinkML source 
name: object_category
description: The conceptual category to which the subject belongs to. This can be
  a string denoting the category or a term from a controlled vocabulary. This slot
  is deliberately underspecified. Conceptual categories can range from those that
  are found in general upper ontologies such as BFO (e.g. process, temporal region,
  etc) to those that serve as upper ontologies in specific domains, such as COB or
  BioLink (e.g. gene, disease, chemical entity). The purpose of this optional field
  is documentation for human reviewers - when a category is known and documented clearly,
  the cost of interpreting and evaluating the mapping decreases.
examples:
- value: UBERON:0001062
  description: The CURIE of the Uberon term for "anatomical entity".
- value: anatomical entity
  description: A string, rather than ID, describing the "anatomical entity" category.
    This is possible, but less preferred than using an ID.
- value: biolink:Gene
  description: The CURIE of the biolink class for genes.
from_schema: https://w3id.org/sssom/schema/
see_also:
- https://github.com/mapping-commons/sssom/issues/13
- https://github.com/mapping-commons/sssom/issues/256
rank: 1000
alias: object_category
domain_of:
- mapping
range: string