Attribute

A property or characteristic of an entity. For example, an apple may have properties such as color, shape, age, crispiness. An environmental sample may have attributes such as depth, lat, long, material.

classDiagram OntologyClass <|-- Attribute NamedThing <|-- Attribute Attribute : category Attribute : description Attribute : has_attribute Attribute : has_attribute_type Attribute : has_qualitative_value Attribute : has_quantitative_value Attribute : id Attribute : iri Attribute : name Attribute : provided_by Attribute : source Attribute : type Attribute : xref

Parent Classes

Entity
- NamedThing
  - Attribute [ ontology class]
    - ChemicalRole
    - BiologicalSex
    - SeverityValue
    - OrganismAttribute
    - Zygosity
    - ClinicalAttribute
    - SocioeconomicAttribute
    - GenomicBackgroundExposure [ exposure event gene grouping mixin physical essence genomic entity thing with taxon ontology class]
    - PathologicalProcessExposure [ exposure event]
    - PathologicalAnatomicalExposure [ exposure event]
    - DiseaseOrPhenotypicFeatureExposure [ exposure event pathological entity mixin]
    - ChemicalExposure [ exposure event]
    - ComplexChemicalExposure
    - BioticExposure [ exposure event]
    - EnvironmentalExposure [ exposure event]
    - BehavioralExposure [ exposure event]
    - SocioeconomicExposure [ exposure event]

Children

Entity
- NamedThing
  - Attribute [ ontology class]
    - ChemicalRole
    - BiologicalSex
    - SeverityValue
    - OrganismAttribute
    - Zygosity
    - ClinicalAttribute
    - SocioeconomicAttribute
    - GenomicBackgroundExposure [ exposure event gene grouping mixin physical essence genomic entity thing with taxon ontology class]
    - PathologicalProcessExposure [ exposure event]
    - PathologicalAnatomicalExposure [ exposure event]
    - DiseaseOrPhenotypicFeatureExposure [ exposure event pathological entity mixin]
    - ChemicalExposure [ exposure event]
    - ComplexChemicalExposure
    - BioticExposure [ exposure event]
    - EnvironmentalExposure [ exposure event]
    - BehavioralExposure [ exposure event]
    - SocioeconomicExposure [ exposure event]

Slots

Name	Description
category	Name of the high level ontology class in which this entity is categorized. Corresponds to the label for the biolink entity type class. In a neo4j database this MAY correspond to the neo4j label tag. In an RDF database it should be a biolink model class URI. This field is multi-valued. It should include values for ancestors of the biolink class; for example, a protein such as Shh would have category values `biolink:Protein`, `biolink:GeneProduct`, `biolink:MolecularEntity`, etc. In an RDF database, nodes will typically have an rdf:type triples. This can be to the most specific biolink class, or potentially to a class more specific than something in biolink. For example, a sequence feature `f` may have a rdf:type assertion to a SO class such as TF_binding_site, which is more specific than anything in biolink. Here we would have categories {biolink:GenomicEntity, biolink:MolecularEntity, biolink:NamedThing}
description	a human-readable description of an entity
has_attribute	connects any entity to an attribute
has_attribute_type	connects an attribute to a class that describes it
has_qualitative_value	connects an attribute to a value
has_quantitative_value	connects an attribute to a value
id	A unique identifier for an entity. Must be either a CURIE shorthand for a URI or a complete URI
iri	An IRI for an entity. This is determined by the id using expansion rules.
name	The human-readable 'attribute name' can be set to a string which reflects its context of interpretation, e.g. SEPIO evidence/provenance/confidence annotation or it can default to the name associated with the 'has attribute type' slot ontology term.
provided_by	The value in this node property represents the knowledge provider that created or assembled the node and all of its attributes. Used internally to represent how a particular node made its way into a knowledge provider or graph.
source	None
type	None
xref	Alternate CURIEs for a thing

Mappings

Mapping Type	Mapped Value
self	['https://w3id.org/biolink/biolink-model/:Attribute']
native	['https://w3id.org/biolink/biolink-model/:Attribute']
exact	['SIO:000614']