BioChemEntity¶
Any biological, chemical, or biochemical thing. For example: a protein; a gene; a chemical; a synthetic chemical.
Diagram¶
Specializations of BioChemEntity¶
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| Chemical Substance | A chemical substance is 'a portion of matter of constant composition, composed of molecular entities of the same type or of different types' (source: ChEBI:59999). |
| Gene | A discrete unit of inheritance which affects one or more biological traits (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene). Examples include FOXP2 (Forkhead box protein P2), SCARNA21 (small Cajal body-specific RNA 21), A- (agouti genotype). |
| Molecular Entity | Any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, complex, conformer etc., identifiable as a separately distinguishable entity. |
| Protein | Protein is here used in its widest possible definition, as classes of amino acid based molecules. Amyloid-beta Protein in human (UniProt P05067), eukaryota (e.g. an OrthoDB group) or even a single molecule that one can point to are all of type :Protein. A protein can thus be a subclass of another protein, e.g. :Protein as a UniProt record can have multiple isoforms inside it which would also be :Protein. They can be imagined, synthetic, hypothetical or naturally occurring. |
Formalization for BioChemEntity¶
| Property | Constraint |
|---|---|
| subClassOf | Thing |