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- Ontology comment "Graphs that contain ontologies in the store are declared to be of type provenance:Ontology. The graph name in the store is identical to the ontology IRI.".
- ThingGraph comment "Thing graphs hold metadata about a single thing. Note the difference with Datasets, which hold metadata about many things. Thing graphs are usually exposed to user friendly tools which allow users with little on no RDF skills to specifically edit a metadata about a thing in a form. For example a thing graph can contain metadata about a football team such as its various names, LOD links for the team, a short disambiguation hint, e.t.c. Thing graphs are also used to store metadata about things obtained from a feed, for example store metadata about locations obtained from a Location Services feed.".
- sport comment "The Sport Ontology is a simple lightweight ontology for publishing data about competitive sports events.".
- Competition comment "A competitive sporting event that usually appears as an occurrence of a recurring competition, for example the recurring English Football Premier League has a seasonal competition occurrence during 2012/13".
- CompetitionType comment "Enumerated competition types, for example: domestic, international.".
- CompetitiveSportingGroup comment "The group of people that are available to compete in a particular competition. Two groups with the same members are not necessarily the same group.".
- CompetitiveSportingOrganisation comment "A sporting organisation that participates in competitive sporting events. For example Manchester United or Team GB at the Olympics.".
- DivisionalCompetition comment "A Divisional Competition is a competition that is divided into a number of competitions. London 2012 is an example of a Divisional Competition.".
- EventGender comment "Enumerated type, typically Male, Female or Mixed.".
- GroupCompetition comment "An organisation as a collection of leagues used to select the top N competitors from each league.".
- Home comment "The home ground, stadium or location of a Competitive Sporting Organisation.".
- LeagueCompetition comment "A League Competition is a hierarchy of competitions or competition within such a hierarchy.".
- Match comment "The smallest unit of sporting competition.".
- MultiRoundCompetition comment "A Competition organised as a sequence of rounds, for example the Premier League or group stage of the World Cup.".
- MultiStageCompetition comment "A Multi-stage Competition is a competition that is organised as a set of stages. An example is the Football World Cup.".
- Person comment "An athlete or other person with typically a participating role in a CompetitiveSportingOrganisation.".
- RecurringCompetition comment "A recurring sports competition such as the Rugby Super League.".
- Round comment "A round is one or more competitions that is part of a Multi-Round Competition. Examples include the first round of Wimbledon and the final round of the FA Cup.".
- RoundType comment "Enumerated round types, for example: preliminary, qualifying or final.".
- Session comment "A sub-division of a competition, that must be broken up due to the duration of that competition, occurring for example in snooker or cricket.".
- SportingOrganisation comment "An organisation involved in Sport, for example the UK Government Department for Culture, Media and Sport.".
- SportsDiscipline comment "The type of discipline a sporting event involves. Rugby League is a discipline as it has a different set of rules from Rugby Union.".
- UnitCompetition comment "A unit competition is the unit of competition defined by a competition discipline rules. Examples include a 100m race or Football match.".
- hasCompetitor comment "Relates a competition to a competitor in that competition.".
- hasMatch comment "Relates a round to a match.".
- hasRound comment "Relates a multi-round competition to a round in that competition.".
- hasSession comment "Relates a competition to a session within that competition.".
- hasStage comment "Relates a multi-stage competition to a stage that it contains.".
- hasUnitCompetition comment "Relates a round to a unit competition in that round.".
- isGroupOf comment "Relates a group competition to its corresponding League competition.".
- promotesTo comment "Relates a competition to the next competition in a heirarchy that teams are promoted to. For example the nPower Championship promotes to the Premier League.".
- relegatesTo comment "Relates a competition to the previous competition in a heirarchy that teams are relegated to. For example the Premier League relegates to the nPower Championship.".
- biopax-level3.owl comment "This is version 1.0 of the BioPAX Level 3 ontology. The goal of the BioPAX group is to develop a common exchange format for biological pathway data. More information is available at http://www.biopax.org. This ontology is freely available under the LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html).".
- BindingFeature comment "Definition : An entity feature that represent the bound state of a physical entity. A pair of binding features represents a bond. \n\nRationale: A physical entity in a molecular complex is considered as a new state of an entity as it is structurally and functionally different. Binding features provide facilities for describing these states. Similar to other features, a molecule can have bound and not-bound states. \n\nUsage: Typically, binding features are present in pairs, each describing the binding characteristic for one of the interacting physical entities. One exception is using a binding feature with no paired feature to describe any potential binding. For example, an unbound receptor can be described by using a \"not-feature\" property with an unpaired binding feature as its value. BindingSiteType and featureLocation allows annotating the binding location.\n\nIntraMolecular property should be set to \"true\" if the bond links two parts of the same molecule. A pair of binding features are still used where they are owned by the same physical entity. \n\nIf the binding is due to the covalent interactions, for example in the case of lipoproteins, CovalentBindingFeature subclass should be used instead of this class.".
- BioSource comment "Definition: The biological source (organism, tissue or cell type) of an Entity. \n\nUsage: Some entities are considered source-neutral (e.g. small molecules), and the biological source of others can be deduced from their constituentss (e.g. complex, pathway).\n\nInstances: HeLa cells, Homo sapiens, and mouse liver tissue.".
- BiochemicalPathwayStep comment "Definition: Imposes ordering on a step in a biochemical pathway. \nRetionale: A biochemical reaction can be reversible by itself, but can be physiologically directed in the context of a pathway, for instance due to flux of reactants and products. \nUsage: Only one conversion interaction can be ordered at a time, but multiple catalysis or modulation instances can be part of one step.".
- BiochemicalReaction comment "Definition: A conversion in which molecules of one or more physicalEntity pools, undergo covalent modifications and become a member of one or more other physicalEntity pools. The substrates of biochemical reactions are defined in terms of sums of species. This is a convention in biochemistry, and, in principle, all EC reactions should be biochemical reactions.\n\nExamples: ATP + H2O = ADP + Pi\n\nComment: In the example reaction above, ATP is considered to be an equilibrium mixture of several species, namely ATP4-, HATP3-, H2ATP2-, MgATP2-, MgHATP-, and Mg2ATP. Additional species may also need to be considered if other ions (e.g. Ca2+) that bind ATP are present. Similar considerations apply to ADP and to inorganic phosphate (Pi). When writing biochemical reactions, it is not necessary to attach charges to the biochemical reactants or to include ions such as H+ and Mg2+ in the equation. The reaction is written in the direction specified by the EC nomenclature system, if applicable, regardless of the physiological direction(s) in which the reaction proceeds. Polymerization reactions involving large polymers whose structure is not explicitly captured should generally be represented as unbalanced reactions in which the monomer is consumed but the polymer remains unchanged, e.g. glycogen + glucose = glycogen. A better coverage for polymerization will be developed.".
- Catalysis comment "Definition: A control interaction in which a physical entity (a catalyst) increases the rate of a conversion interaction by lowering its activation energy. Instances of this class describe a pairing between a catalyzing entity and a catalyzed conversion.\nRationale: Catalysis, theoretically, is always bidirectional since it acts by lowering the activation energy. Physiologically, however, it can have a direction because of the concentration of the participants. For example, the oxidative decarboxylation catalyzed by Isocitrate dehydrogenase always happens in one direction under physiological conditions since the produced carbon dioxide is constantly removed from the system.\n \nUsage: A separate catalysis instance should be created for each different conversion that a physicalEntity may catalyze and for each different physicalEntity that may catalyze a conversion. For example, a bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes two different biochemical reactions would be linked to each of those biochemical reactions by two separate instances of the catalysis class. Also, catalysis reactions from multiple different organisms could be linked to the same generic biochemical reaction (a biochemical reaction is generic if it only includes small molecules). Generally, the enzyme catalyzing a conversion is known and the use of this class is obvious, however, in the cases where a catalyzed reaction is known to occur but the enzyme is not known, a catalysis instance can be created without a controller specified.\nSynonyms: facilitation, acceleration.\nExamples: The catalysis of a biochemical reaction by an enzyme, the enabling of a transport interaction by a membrane pore complex, and the facilitation of a complex assembly by a scaffold protein. Hexokinase -> (The \"Glucose + ATP -> Glucose-6-phosphate +ADP\" reaction). A plasma membrane Na+/K+ ATPase is an active transporter (antiport pump) using the energy of ATP to pump Na+ out of the cell and K+ in. Na+ from cytoplasm to extracellular space would be described in a transport instance. K+ from extracellular space to cytoplasm would be described in a transport instance. The ATPase pump would be stored in a catalysis instance controlling each of the above transport instances. A biochemical reaction that does not occur by itself under physiological conditions, but has been observed to occur in the presence of cell extract, likely via one or more unknown enzymes present in the extract, would be stored in the CONTROLLED property, with the CONTROLLER property empty.".
- CellVocabulary comment "Definition: A reference to the Cell Type Ontology (CL). Homepage at http://obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?cell. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=CL".
- CellularLocationVocabulary comment "Definition: A reference to the Gene Ontology Cellular Component (GO CC) ontology. Homepage at http://www.geneontology.org. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=GO".
- ChemicalStructure comment "Definition: The chemical structure of a small molecule. \n\nUsage: Structure information is stored in the property structureData, in one of three formats: the CML format (see www.xml-cml.org), the SMILES format (see www.daylight.com/dayhtml/smiles/) or the InChI format (http://www.iupac.org/inchi/). The structureFormat property specifies which format is used.\n\nExamples: The following SMILES string describes the structure of glucose-6-phosphate:\n'C(OP(=O)(O)O)[CH]1([CH](O)[CH](O)[CH](O)[CH](O)O1)'.".
- Complex comment "Definition: A physical entity whose structure is comprised of other physical entities bound to each other covalently or non-covalently, at least one of which is a macromolecule (e.g. protein, DNA, or RNA) and the Stoichiometry of the components are known. \n\nComment: Complexes must be stable enough to function as a biological unit; in general, the temporary association of an enzyme with its substrate(s) should not be considered or represented as a complex. A complex is the physical product of an interaction (complexAssembly) and is not itself considered an interaction.\nThe boundaries on the size of complexes described by this class are not defined here, although possible, elements of the cell such a mitochondria would typically not be described using this class (later versions of this ontology may include a cellularComponent class to represent these). The strength of binding cannot be described currently, but may be included in future versions of the ontology, depending on community need.\nExamples: Ribosome, RNA polymerase II. Other examples of this class include complexes of multiple protein monomers and complexes of proteins and small molecules.".
- ComplexAssembly comment "Definition: A conversion interaction in which a set of physical entities, at least one being a macromolecule (e.g. protein, RNA, DNA), aggregate to from a complex physicalEntity. One of the participants of a complexAssembly must be an instance of the class Complex. The modification of the physicalentities involved in the ComplexAssembly is captured via BindingFeature class.\n\nUsage: This class is also used to represent complex disassembly. The assembly or disassembly of a complex is often a spontaneous process, in which case the direction of the complexAssembly (toward either assembly or disassembly) should be specified via the SPONTANEOUS property. Conversions in which participants obtain or lose CovalentBindingFeatures ( e.g. glycolysation of proteins) should be modeled with BiochemicalReaction.\n\nSynonyms: aggregation, complex formation\n\nExamples: Assembly of the TFB2 and TFB3 proteins into the TFIIH complex, and assembly of the ribosome through aggregation of its subunits.".
- Control comment "Definition: An interaction in which one entity regulates, modifies, or otherwise influences a continuant entity, i.e. pathway or interaction. \n\nUsage: Conceptually, physical entities are involved in interactions (or events) and the events are controlled or modified, not the physical entities themselves. For example, a kinase activating a protein is a frequent event in signaling pathways and is usually represented as an 'activation' arrow from the kinase to the substrate in signaling diagrams. This is an abstraction, called \"Activity Flow\" representation, that can be ambiguous without context. In BioPAX, this information should be captured as the kinase catalyzing (via an instance of the catalysis class) a Biochemical Reaction in which the substrate is phosphorylated. \nSubclasses of control define types specific to the biological process that is being controlled and should be used instead of the generic \"control\" class when applicable. \n\nA control can potentially have multiple controllers. This acts as a logical AND, i.e. both controllers are needed to regulate the controlled event. Alternatively multiple controllers can control the same event and this acts as a logical OR, i.e. any one of them is sufficient to regulate the controlled event. Using this structure it is possible to describe arbitrary control logic using BioPAX.\n\nRationale: Control can be temporally non-atomic, for example a pathway can control another pathway in BioPAX. \nSynonyms: regulation, mediation\n\nExamples: A small molecule that inhibits a pathway by an unknown mechanism.".
- ControlledVocabulary comment "Definition: This class represents a term from an external controlled vocabulary (CV).\nRationale: Controlled Vocabularies mark cases where BioPAX delegates the representation of a complex biological phenomena to an external controlled vocabulary development effort such as Gene Ontology. Each subclass of this class represents one such case and often has an associated \"Best-Practice\" external resource to use. See the documentation of each subclass for more specific information. Correct usage of controlled vocabularies are critical to data exchange and integration.\nUsage: The individuals belonging to this class must unambiguously refer to the source controlled vocabulary. This can be achieved in two manners:\nThe xref property of this class is restricted to the unification xref class. It must point to the source controlled vocabulary.\nAlternatively the rdf-id of the member individuals can be set to the designated MIRIAM URN.\nIt is a best practice to do both whenever possible.\nAlthough it is possible to use multiple unification xrefs to identify semantically identical terms across alternative controlled vocabularies, this is not a recommended practice as it might lead to maintenance issues as the controlled vocabularies change.\nThere is no recommended use-case for directly instantiating this class. Please use its subclasses instead.".
- Conversion comment "Definition: An interaction in which molecules of one or more PhysicalEntity pools are physically transformed and become a member of one or more other PhysicalEntity pools.\nRationale: Conversion is Comments: Conversions in BioPAX are stoichiometric and closed world, i.e. it is assumed that all of the participants are listed. Both properties are due to the law of mass conservation.\nUsage: Subclasses of conversion represent different types of transformation reflected by the properties of different physicalEntity. BiochemicalReactions will change the ModificationFeatures on a PhysicalEntity, Transport will change the Cellular Location and ComplexAssembly will change BindingFeatures. Generic Conversion class should only be used when the modification does not fit into a any of these classes.\nExample: Opening of a voltage gated channel.".
- Degradation comment "Definition: A conversion in which a pool of macromolecules are degraded into their elementary units.\n\nUsage: This conversion always has a direction of left-to-right and is irreversible. Degraded molecules are always represented on the left, degradation products on the right. \n\nComments: Degradation is a complex abstraction over multiple reactions. Although it obeys law of mass conservation and stoichiometric, the products are rarely specified since they are ubiquitous.\n\nExample: Degradation of a protein to amino acids.".
- DeltaG comment "Definition: Standard transformed Gibbs energy change for a reaction written in terms of biochemical reactants. \nUsage: Delta-G is represented as a 5-tuple of delta-G'<sup>0</sup>, temperature, ionic strength , pH, and pMg . A conversion in BioPAX may have multiple Delta-G values, representing different measurements for delta-G'<sup>0</sup> obtained under the different experimental conditions.".
- Dna comment "Definition: A physical entity consisting of a sequence of deoxyribonucleotide monophosphates; a deoxyribonucleic acid.\nUsage: DNA should be used for pools of individual DNA molecules. For describing subregions on those molecules use DNARegion.\nExamples: a chromosome, a plasmid. A specific example is chromosome 7 of Homo sapiens.".
- DnaReference comment "Definition: A DNA reference is a grouping of several DNA entities that are common in sequence. Members can differ in celular location, sequence features, SNPs, mutations and bound partners.\n\nComments : Note that this is not a reference gene. Genes are non-physical,stateless continuants. Their physical manifestations can span multiple DNA molecules, sometimes even across chromosomes due to regulatory regions. Similarly a gene is not necessarily made up of deoxyribonucleic acid and can be present in multiple copies ( which are different DNA regions).".
- DnaRegion comment "Definition: A region on a DNA molecule. \nUsage: DNARegion is not a pool of independent molecules but a subregion on these molecules. As such, every DNARegion has a defining DNA molecule. \nExamples: Protein encoding region, promoter".
- DnaRegionReference comment "Definition: A DNARegionReference is a grouping of several DNARegion entities that are common in sequence and genomic position. Members can differ in cellular location, sequence features, SNPs, mutations and bound partners.".
- Entity comment "Definition: A discrete biological unit used when describing pathways. \n\nRationale: Entity is the most abstract class for representing components of a pathway. It includes both occurents (interactions and pathways) and continuants (physical entities and genes). Loosely speaking, BioPAX Entity is an atomic scientific statement with an associated source, evidence and references.\nUsage: There is no recommended use-cases for instantiating this class. Please, use its subclasses instead. \nSynonyms: element, thing,biological unit, statement, observable.".
- EntityFeature comment "Description: A characteristic of a physical entity that can change while the entity still retains its biological identity. \n\nRationale: Two phosphorylated forms of a protein are strictly speaking different chemical molecules. It is, however, standard in biology to treat them as different states of the same entity, where the entity is loosely defined based on sequence. Entity Feature class and its subclassses captures these variable characteristics. A Physical Entity in BioPAX represents a pool of molecules rather than an individual molecule. This is a notion imported from chemistry( See PhysicalEntity). Pools are defined by a set of Entity Features in the sense that a single molecule must have all of the features in the set in order to be considered a member of the pool. Since it is impossible to list and experimentally test all potential features for an entity, features that are not listed in the selection criteria is neglected Pools can also be defined by the converse by specifying features that are known to NOT exist in a specific context. As DNA, RNA and Proteins can be hierarchically organized into families based on sequence homology so can entity features. The memberFeature property allows capturing such hierarchical classifications among entity features.\n\n\nUsage: Subclasses of entity feature describe most common biological instances and should be preferred whenever possible. One common usecase for instantiating entity feature is, for describing active/inactive states of proteins where more specific feature information is not available. \n\nExamples: Open/close conformational state of channel proteins, \"active\"/\"inactive\" states, excited states of photoreactive groups.".
- EntityReference comment "Definition: An entity reference is a grouping of several physical entities across different contexts and molecular states, that share common physical properties and often named and treated as a single entity with multiple states by biologists. \n\nRationale: Many protein, small molecule and gene databases share this point of view, and such a grouping is an important prerequisite for interoperability with those databases. Biologists would often group different pools of molecules in different contexts under the same name. For example cytoplasmic and extracellular calcium have different effects on the cell's behavior, but they are still called calcium. For DNA, RNA and Proteins the grouping is defined based on a wildtype sequence, for small molecules it is defined by the chemical structure.\n\nUsage: Entity references store the information common to a set of molecules in various states described in the BioPAX document, including database cross-references. For instance, the P53 protein can be phosphorylated in multiple different ways. Each separate P53 protein (pool) in a phosphorylation state would be represented as a different protein (child of physicalEntity) and all things common to all P53 proteins, including all possible phosphorylation sites, the sequence common to all of them and common references to protein databases containing more information about P53 would be stored in a Entity Reference. \n\nComments: This grouping has three semantic implications:\n\n1. Members of different pools share many physical and biochemical properties. This includes their chemical structure, sequence, organism and set of molecules they react with. They will also share a lot of secondary information such as their names, functional groupings, annotation terms and database identifiers.\n\n2. A small number of transitions seperates these pools. In other words it is relatively easy and frequent for a molecule to transform from one physical entity to another that belong to the same reference entity. For example an extracellular calcium can become cytoplasmic, and p53 can become phosphorylated. However no calcium virtually becomes sodium, or no p53 becomes mdm2. In the former it is the sheer energy barrier of a nuclear reaction, in the latter sheer statistical improbability of synthesizing the same sequence without a template. If one thinks about the biochemical network as molecules transforming into each other, and remove edges that respond to transcription, translation, degradation and covalent modification of small molecules, each remaining component is a reference entity.\n\n3. Some of the pools in the same group can overlap. p53-p@ser15 can overlap with p53-p@thr18. Most of the experiments in molecular biology will only check for one state variable, rarely multiple, and never for the all possible combinations. So almost all statements that refer to the state of the molecule talk about a pool that can overlap with other pools. However no overlaps is possible between molecules of different groups.".
- EntityReferenceTypeVocabulary comment "Definiiton: A reference to a term from an entity reference group ontology. As of the writing of this documentation, there is no standard ontology of these terms, though a common type is ‘homology’.".
- Evidence comment "Definition: The support for a particular assertion, such as the existence of an interaction or pathway. \nUsage: At least one of confidence, evidenceCode, or experimentalForm must be instantiated when creating an evidence instance. XREF may reference a publication describing the experimental evidence using a publicationXref or may store a description of the experiment in an experimental description database using a unificationXref (if the referenced experiment is the same) or relationshipXref (if it is not identical, but similar in some way e.g. similar in protocol). Evidence is meant to provide more information than just an xref to the source paper.\nExamples: A description of a molecular binding assay that was used to detect a protein-protein interaction.".
- EvidenceCodeVocabulary comment "Definition: A reference to the PSI Molecular Interaction ontology (MI) experimental method types, including \"interaction detection method\", \"participant identification method\", \"feature detection method\". Homepage at http://www.psidev.info/. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=MI\n\nTerms from the Pathway Tools Evidence Ontology may also be used. Homepage http://brg.ai.sri.com/evidence-ontology/".
- ExperimentalForm comment "Definition: The form of a physical entity in a particular experiment, as it may be modified for purposes of experimental design.\nExamples: A His-tagged protein in a binding assay. A protein can be tagged by multiple tags, so can have more than 1 experimental form type terms".
- ExperimentalFormVocabulary comment "Definition: A reference to the PSI Molecular Interaction ontology (MI) participant identification method (e.g. mass spectrometry), experimental role (e.g. bait, prey), experimental preparation (e.g. expression level) type. Homepage at http://www.psidev.info/. Browse http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=MI&termId=MI%3A0002&termName=participant%20identification%20method\n\nhttp://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=MI&termId=MI%3A0495&termName=experimental%20role\n\nhttp://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=MI&termId=MI%3A0346&termName=experimental%20preparation".
- FragmentFeature comment "Definition: An entity feature that represents the resulting physical entity subsequent to a cleavage or degradation event. \n\nUsage: Fragment Feature can be used to cover multiple types of modfications to the sequence of the physical entity: \n1. A protein with a single cleavage site that converts the protein into two fragments (e.g. pro-insulin converted to insulin and C-peptide). TODO: CV term for sequence fragment? PSI-MI CV term for cleavage site?\n2. A protein with two cleavage sites that removes an internal sequence e.g. an intein i.e. ABC -> A\n3. Cleavage of a circular sequence e.g. a plasmid.\n\nIn the case of removal ( e.g. intron) the fragment that is *removed* is specified in the feature location property. In the case of a \"cut\" (e.g. restriction enzyme cut site) the location of the cut is specified instead.\nExamples: Insulin Hormone".
- Gene comment "Definition: A continuant that encodes information that can be inherited through replication. \nRationale: Gene is an abstract continuant that can be best described as a \"schema\", a common conception commonly used by biologists to demark a component within genome. In BioPAX, Gene is considered a generalization over eukaryotic and prokaryotic genes and is used only in genetic interactions. Gene is often confused with DNA and RNA fragments, however, these are considered the physical encoding of a gene. N.B. Gene expression regulation makes use of DNA and RNA physical entities and not this class.\nUsage: Gene should only be used for describing GeneticInteractions.".
- GeneticInteraction comment "Definition : Genetic interactions between genes occur when two genetic perturbations (e.g. mutations) have a combined phenotypic effect not caused by either perturbation alone. A gene participant in a genetic interaction represents the gene that is perturbed. Genetic interactions are not physical interactions but logical (AND) relationships. Their physical manifestations can be complex and span an arbitarily long duration. \n\nRationale: Currently, BioPAX provides a simple definition that can capture most genetic interactions described in the literature. In the future, if required, the definition can be extended to capture other logical relationships and different, participant specific phenotypes. \n\nExample: A synthetic lethal interaction occurs when cell growth is possible without either gene A OR B, but not without both gene A AND B. If you knock out A and B together, the cell will die.".
- Interaction comment "Definition: A biological relationship between two or more entities. \n\nRationale: In BioPAX, interactions are atomic from a database modeling perspective, i.e. interactions can not be decomposed into sub-interactions. When representing non-atomic continuants with explicit subevents the pathway class should be used instead. Interactions are not necessarily temporally atomic, for example genetic interactions cover a large span of time. Interactions as a formal concept is a continuant, it retains its identitiy regardless of time, or any differences in specific states or properties.\n\nUsage: Interaction is a highly abstract class and in almost all cases it is more appropriate to use one of the subclasses of interaction. \nIt is partially possible to define generic reactions by using generic participants. A more comprehensive method is planned for BioPAX L4 for covering all generic cases like oxidization of a generic alcohol. \n\nSynonyms: Process, relationship, event.\n\nExamples: protein-protein interaction, biochemical reaction, enzyme catalysis".
- InteractionVocabulary comment "Definition: A reference to the PSI Molecular Interaction ontology (MI) interaction type. Homepage at http://www.psidev.info/. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=MI&termId=MI%3A0190&termName=interaction%20type".
- KPrime comment "Definition: The apparent equilibrium constant, K', and associated values. \nUsage: Concentrations in the equilibrium constant equation refer to the total concentrations of all forms of particular biochemical reactants. For example, in the equilibrium constant equation for the biochemical reaction in which ATP is hydrolyzed to ADP and inorganic phosphate:\n\nK' = [ADP][P<sub>i</sub>]/[ATP],\n\nThe concentration of ATP refers to the total concentration of all of the following species:\n\n[ATP] = [ATP<sup>4-</sup>] + [HATP<sup>3-</sup>] + [H<sub>2</sub>ATP<sup>2-</sup>] + [MgATP<sup>2-</sup>] + [MgHATP<sup>-</sup>] + [Mg<sub>2</sub>ATP].\n\nThe apparent equilibrium constant is formally dimensionless, and can be kept so by inclusion of as many of the terms (1 mol/dm<sup>3</sup>) in the numerator or denominator as necessary. It is a function of temperature (T), ionic strength (I), pH, and pMg (pMg = -log<sub>10</sub>[Mg<sup>2+</sup>]). Therefore, these quantities must be specified to be precise, and values for KEQ for biochemical reactions may be represented as 5-tuples of the form (K' T I pH pMg). This property may have multiple values, representing different measurements for K' obtained under the different experimental conditions listed in the 5-tuple. (This definition adapted from EcoCyc)\n\nSee http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iubmb/thermod/ for a thermodynamics tutorial.".
- ModificationFeature comment "Definition: An entity feature that represents the covalently modified state of a dna, rna or a protein. \n\nRationale: In Biology, identity of DNA, RNA and Protein entities are defined around a wildtype sequence. Covalent modifications to this basal sequence are represented using modificaton features. Since small molecules are identified based on their chemical structure, not sequence, a covalent modification to a small molecule would result in a different molecule. \n\nUsage: The added groups should be simple and stateless, such as phosphate or methyl groups and are captured by the modificationType controlled vocabulary. In other cases, such as covalently linked proteins, use CovalentBindingFeature instead. \n\nInstances: A phosphorylation on a protein, a methylation on a DNA.".
- Modulation comment "Definition: A control interaction in which a physical entity modulates a catalysis interaction. \n\nRationale: Biologically, most modulation interactions describe an interaction in which a small molecule alters the ability of an enzyme to catalyze a specific reaction. Instances of this class describe a pairing between a modulating entity and a catalysis interaction.\n\nUsage: A typical modulation instance has a small molecule as the controller entity and a catalysis instance as the controlled entity. A separate modulation instance should be created for each different catalysis instance that a physical entity may modulate, and for each different physical entity that may modulate a catalysis instance.\nExamples: Allosteric activation and competitive inhibition of an enzyme's ability to catalyze a specific reaction.".
- MolecularInteraction comment "Definition: An interaction in which participants bind physically to each other, directly or indirectly through intermediary molecules.\n\nRationale: There is a large body of interaction data, mostly produced by high throughput systems, that does not satisfy the level of detail required to model them with ComplexAssembly class. Specifically, what is lacking is the stoichiometric information and completeness (closed-world) of participants required to model them as chemical processes. Nevertheless interaction data is extremely useful and can be captured in BioPAX using this class. \n \nUsage: This class should be used by default for representing molecular interactions such as those defined by PSI-MI level 2.5. The participants in a molecular interaction should be listed in the PARTICIPANT slot. Note that this is one of the few cases in which the PARTICPANT slot should be directly populated with instances (see comments on the PARTICPANTS property in the interaction class description). If all participants are known with exact stoichiometry, ComplexAssembly class should be used instead.\n\nExample: Two proteins observed to interact in a yeast-two-hybrid experiment where there is not enough experimental evidence to suggest that the proteins are forming a complex by themselves without any indirect involvement of other proteins. This is the case for most large-scale yeast two-hybrid screens.".
- Pathway comment "Definition: A set or series of interactions, often forming a network, which biologists have found useful to group together for organizational, historic, biophysical or other reasons.\n\nUsage: Pathways can be used for demarcating any subnetwork of a BioPAX model. It is also possible to define a pathway without specifying the interactions within the pathway. In this case, the pathway instance could consist simply of a name and could be treated as a 'black box'. Pathways can also soverlap, i.e. a single interaction might belong to multiple pathways. Pathways can also contain sub-pathways. Pathways are continuants.\n\nSynonyms: network, module, cascade, \nExamples: glycolysis, valine biosynthesis, EGFR signaling".
- PathwayStep comment "Definition: A step in an ordered pathway.\nRationale: Some pathways can have a temporal order. For example, if the pathway boundaries are based on a perturbation phenotype link, the pathway might start with the perturbing agent and end at gene expression leading to the observed changes. Pathway steps can represent directed compound graphs.\nUsage: Multiple interactions may occur in a pathway step, each should be listed in the stepProcess property. Order relationships between pathway steps may be established with the nextStep slot. If the reaction contained in the step is a reversible biochemical reaction but physiologically has a direction in the context of this pathway, use the subclass BiochemicalPathwayStep.\n\nExample: A metabolic pathway may contain a pathway step composed of one biochemical reaction (BR1) and one catalysis (CAT1) instance, where CAT1 describes the catalysis of BR1. The M phase of the cell cycle, defined as a pathway, precedes the G1 phase, also defined as a pathway.".
- PhenotypeVocabulary comment "Definition: The phenotype measured in the experiment e.g. growth rate or viability of a cell. This is only the type, not the value e.g. for a synthetic lethal interaction, the phenotype is viability, specified by ID: PATO:0000169, \"viability\", not the value (specified by ID: PATO:0000718, \"lethal (sensu genetics)\". A single term in a phenotype controlled vocabulary can be referenced using the xref, or the PhenoXML describing the PATO EQ model phenotype description can be stored as a string in PATO-DATA.".
- PhysicalEntity comment "Definition: A pool of molecules or molecular complexes. \n\nComments: Each PhysicalEntity is defined by a sequence or structure based on an EntityReference AND any set of Features that are given. For example, ser46 phosphorylated p53 is a physical entity in BioPAX defined by the p53 sequence and the phosphorylation feature on the serine at position 46 in the sequence. Features are any combination of cellular location, covalent and non-covalent bonds with other molecules and covalent modifications. \n\nFor a specific molecule to be a member of the pool it has to satisfy all of the specified features. Unspecified features are treated as unknowns or unneccesary. Features that are known to not be on the molecules should be explicitly stated with the \"not feature\" property. \nA physical entity in BioPAX never represents a specific molecular instance. \n\nPhysical Entity can be heterogenous and potentially overlap, i.e. a single molecule can be counted as a member of multiple pools. This makes BioPAX semantics different than regular chemical notation but is necessary for dealing with combinatorial complexity. \n\nSynonyms: part, interactor, object, species\n\nExamples: extracellular calcium, ser 64 phosphorylated p53".
- Protein comment "Definition: A physical entity consisting of a sequence of amino acids; a protein monomer; a single polypeptide chain.\nExamples: The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) protein.".
- ProteinReference comment "Description: A protein reference is a grouping of several protein entities that are encoded by the same genetic sequence. Members can differ in any combination of cellular location, sequence features and bound partners.\nRationale: Protein molecules, encoded by the same genetic sequence can be present in (combinatorially many) different states, as a result of post translational modifications and non-covalent bonds. Each state, chemically, is a different pool of molecules. They are, however, related to each other because:\nThey all share the same \"base\" genetic sequence.\nThey can only be converted to each other but not to any other protein\nComments:Most Protein databases, including UniProt would map one to one with ProteinReferences in BioPAX.".
- Provenance comment "Definition: The direct source of pathway data or score.\nUsage: This does not store the trail of sources from the generation of the data to this point, only the last known source, such as a database, tool or algorithm. The xref property may contain a publicationXref referencing a publication describing the data source (e.g. a database publication). A unificationXref may be used when pointing to an entry in a database of databases describing this database.\nExamples: A database, scoring method or person name.".
- PublicationXref comment "Definition: An xref that defines a reference to a publication such as a book, journal article, web page, or software manual.\nUsage: The reference may or may not be in a database, although references to PubMed are preferred when possible. The publication should make a direct reference to the instance it is attached to. Publication xrefs should make use of PubMed IDs wherever possible. The DB property of an xref to an entry in PubMed should use the string \"PubMed\" and not \"MEDLINE\".\nExamples: PubMed:10234245".
- RelationshipTypeVocabulary comment "Definition: Vocabulary for defining relationship Xref types. A reference to the PSI Molecular Interaction ontology (MI) Cross Reference type. Homepage at http://www.psidev.info/. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=MI&termId=MI%3A0353&termName=cross-reference%20type".
- RelationshipXref comment "Definition: An xref that defines a reference to an entity in an external resource that does not have the same biological identity as the referring entity.\nUsage: There is currently no controlled vocabulary of relationship types for BioPAX, although one will be created in the future if a need develops.\nExamples: A link between a gene G in a BioPAX data collection, and the protein product P of that gene in an external database. This is not a unification xref because G and P are different biological entities (one is a gene and one is a protein). Another example is a relationship xref for a protein that refers to the Gene Ontology biological process, e.g. 'immune response,' that the protein is involved in.".
- Rna comment "Definition: A physical entity consisting of a sequence of ribonucleotide monophosphates; a ribonucleic acid.\nUsage: RNA should be used for pools of individual RNA molecules. For describing subregions on those molecules use RNARegion.\nExamples: messengerRNA, microRNA, ribosomalRNA. A specific example is the let-7 microRNA.".
- RnaReference comment "Defintion: A RNA reference is a grouping of several RNA entities that are either encoded by the same gene or replicates of the same genome. Members can differ in celular location, sequence features and bound partners. Currently conformational states (such as hairpin) are not covered.".
- RnaRegion comment "Definition: A region on a RNA molecule. \nUsage: RNARegion is not a pool of independent molecules but a subregion on these molecules. As such, every RNARegion has a defining RNA molecule. \nExamples: CDS, 3' UTR, Hairpin".
- RnaRegionReference comment "Definition: A RNARegion reference is a grouping of several RNARegion entities that are common in sequence and genomic position. Members can differ in celular location, sequence features, mutations and bound partners.".
- Score comment "Definition: A score associated with a publication reference describing how the score was determined, the name of the method and a comment briefly describing the method.\nUsage: The xref must contain at least one publication that describes the method used to determine the score value. There is currently no standard way of describing values, so any string is valid.\nExamples: The statistical significance of a result, e.g. \"p<0.05\".".
- SequenceInterval comment "Definition: An interval on a sequence. \nUsage: Interval is defined as an ordered pair of SequenceSites. All of the sequence from the begin site to the end site (inclusive) is described, not any subset.".
- SequenceLocation comment "Definition: A location on a nucleotide or amino acid sequence.\nUsage: For most purposes it is more appropriate to use subclasses of this class. Direct instances of SequenceLocation can be used for uknown locations that can not be classified neither as an interval nor a site.".
- SequenceModificationVocabulary comment "Definiiton: A reference to the PSI Molecular Interaction ontology (MI) of covalent sequence modifications. Homepage at http://www.psidev.info/. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=MI&termId=MI%3A0252&termName=biological%20feature. Only children that are covelent modifications at specific positions can be used.".
- SequenceRegionVocabulary comment "Definition: A reference to a controlled vocabulary of sequence regions, such as InterPro or Sequence Ontology (SO). Homepage at http://www.sequenceontology.org/. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=SO".
- SequenceSite comment "Definition: Describes a site on a sequence, i.e. the position of a single nucleotide or amino acid.\nUsage: A sequence site is always defined based on the reference sequence of the owning entity. For DNARegion and RNARegion it is relative to the region itself not the genome or full RNA molecule.".
- SmallMolecule comment "Definition: A pool of molecules that are neither complexes nor are genetically encoded.\n\nRationale: Identity of small molecules are based on structure, rather than sequence as in the case of DNA, RNA or Protein. A small molecule reference is a grouping of several small molecule entities that have the same chemical structure. \n\nUsage : Smalle Molecules can have a cellular location and binding features. They can't have modification features as covalent modifications of small molecules are not considered as state changes but treated as different molecules.\nSome non-genomic macromolecules, such as large complex carbohydrates are currently covered by small molecules despite they lack a static structure. Better coverage for such molecules require representation of generic stoichiometry and polymerization, currently planned for BioPAX level 4.\n\nExamples: glucose, penicillin, phosphatidylinositol".
- SmallMoleculeReference comment "A small molecule reference is a grouping of several small molecule entities that have the same chemical structure. Members can differ in celular location and bound partners. Covalent modifications of small molecules are not considered as state changes but treated as different molecules.".
- Stoichiometry comment "Definition: Stoichiometric coefficient of a physical entity in the context of a conversion or complex.\nUsage: For each participating element there must be 0 or 1 stoichiometry element. A non-existing stoichiometric element is treated as unknown.\nThis is an n-ary bridge for left, right and component properties. Relative stoichiometries ( e.g n, n+1) often used for describing polymerization is not supported.".
- TemplateReaction comment "Definiton: An interaction where a macromolecule is polymerized from a \n template macromolecule. \n\nRationale: This is an abstraction over multiple (not explicitly stated) biochemical \n reactions. The ubiquitous molecules (NTP and amino acids) consumed are also usually\n omitted. Template reaction is non-stoichiometric, does not obey law of \n mass conservation and temporally non-atomic. It, however, provides a \n mechanism to capture processes that are central to all living organisms. \n\nUsage: Regulation of TemplateReaction, e.g. via a transcription factor can be \n captured using TemplateReactionRegulation. TemplateReaction can also be \n indirect for example, it is not necessary to represent intermediary mRNA \n for describing expression of a protein. It was decided to not subclass \n TemplateReaction to subtypes such as transcription of translation for the \n sake of simplicity. If needed these subclasses can be added in the \n future. \n\nExamples: Transcription, translation, replication, reverse transcription. E.g. \n DNA to RNA is transcription, RNA to protein is translation and DNA to \n protein is protein expression from DNA.".
- TemplateReactionRegulation comment "Definition: Regulation of an expression reaction by a controlling element such as a transcription factor or microRNA. \n\nUsage: To represent the binding of the transcription factor to a regulatory element in the TemplateReaction, create a complex of the transcription factor and the regulatory element and set that as the controller.".
- TissueVocabulary comment "Definition: A reference to the BRENDA (BTO). Homepage at http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/. Browse at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=BTO".
- Transport comment "Definition: An conversion in which molecules of one or more physicalEntity pools change their subcellular location and become a member of one or more other physicalEntity pools. A transport interaction does not include the transporter entity, even if one is required in order for the transport to occur. Instead, transporters are linked to transport interactions via the catalysis class.\n\nUsage: If there is a simultaneous chemical modification of the participant(s), use transportWithBiochemicalReaction class.\n\nSynonyms: translocation.\n\nExamples: The movement of Na+ into the cell through an open voltage-gated channel.".
- UnificationXref comment "Definition: A unification xref defines a reference to an entity in an external resource that has the same biological identity as the referring entity\nRationale: Unification xrefs are critically important for data integration. In the future they may be replaced by direct miriam links and rdf:id based identity management. \n\nUsage: For example, if one wished to link from a database record, C, describing a chemical compound in a BioPAX data collection to a record, C', describing the same chemical compound in an external database, one would use a unification xref since records C and C' describe the same biological identity. Generally, unification xrefs should be used whenever possible, although there are cases where they might not be useful, such as application to application data exchange.Identity of interactions can be computed based on the identity of its participants. An xref in a protein pointing to a gene, e.g. in the LocusLink database17, would not be a unification xref since the two entities do not have the same biological identity (one is a protein, the other is a gene). Instead, this link should be a captured as a relationship xref. References to an external controlled vocabulary term within the OpenControlledVocabulary class should use a unification xref where possible (e.g. GO:0005737).\nExamples: An xref in a protein instance pointing to an entry in the Swiss-Prot database, and an xref in an RNA instance pointing to the corresponding RNA sequence in the RefSeq database..".
- UtilityClass comment "Definition: This is a placeholder for classes, used for annotating the \"Entity\" and its subclasses. Mostly, these are not an \"Entity\" themselves. Examples include references to external databases, controlled vocabularies, evidence and provenance.\n\nRationale: Utility classes are created when simple slots are insufficient to describe an aspect of an entity or to increase compatibility of this ontology with other standards. \n\nUsage: The utilityClass class is actually a metaclass and is only present to organize the other helper classes under one class hierarchy; instances of utilityClass should never be created.".
- Xref comment "Definition: A reference from an instance of a class in this ontology to an object in an external resource.\nRationale: Xrefs in the future can be removed in the future in favor of explicit miram links. \nUsage: For most cases one of the subclasses of xref should be used.".
- bindsTo comment "A binding feature represents a \"half\" of the bond between two entities. This property points to another binding feature which represents the other half. The bond can be covalent or non-covalent.".