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Slot: subject_category

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.

URI: sssom:subject_category

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Mapping Represents an individual mapping between a pair of entities no

Properties

Examples

Value
UBERON:0001062
anatomical entity
biolink:Gene

See Also

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/sssom/schema/

LinkML Source

name: subject_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: subject_category
domain_of:
- mapping
range: string