This attribute is intrinsically essential to entity.
This mean concepts which appear in our domain of discourse such as Concept, Instance, State, etc. This is not seriously elaborated yet.
Artificial content bearing non-physical thing. This has a content and form as a substance to bear the content. Representation is represented by a agent.
It needs both 3D space and time to exist.
Locus is a nominal scale value for chromosomal location. Usually, it is represented by the name of a genetic marker. Locus itself does not represent ordinal feature of chromosomal location such as genetic or phisical distance.
Roles are not adequately reflected in YATO, since it is already reflected/imbedded in Hozo tool. While ordinary types such as human, table, etc. are defined independently, roles are defined within a context which they necessarily depends on in our role theory [Mizoguchi 07]. In fact, roles are used in defining all the types in YATO. These are the reasons why YATO does not have to incorporate roles in it. When one uses Hozo with YATO, he/she can enjoy maximally the benefits presented by both. See [Mizoguchi 2007] Mizoguchi R., Sunagawa E., Kozaki K. and Kitamura Y.: A Model of Roles within an Ontology Development Tool: Hozo, J. of Applied Ontology, Vol.2, No.2, pp.159-179. Sep. 2007.
This is not artificial symbol such as alphabets. This is natural symbol to compose information such as genetic information.
Genetic background is a nominal scale value of the gentetic attribute of a biological entity. This is composed of genotypes.
Something which exists independently of others. Entity requires time, space and substance to exist.
This is an abstration of the possession for things of a quality value. This is necessary to keep the interoperability with state which does NOT compatible with quality type or attribute. Consider "hungry" which is compatible with "being tall" rather than "length".
Taxonomic rank indicates the level of biological classification such as domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family genus and species.We cannot represent these ranks as the classes in the "Particular" world.
The Time is indispensable for entities to exist in the world.
In this ontology "genome" is not the entirety of an organism's hereditary information, but the entirety of a bearer of an organism's hereditary information.
This is a non-categorical quality value represents only the rank order (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.).
This is a quantitavive quality value represents the rank order and intervals between a rank and next rank are equal.
This is a fully categorical quality value which do not represent any order or rank.
Non-artificial content bearing thing, such as DNA sequence and single DNA as a molecular symbol. As the contrast to representation in artificial, this does'nt have agent as author.
Genotype is a nominal scale value represents genomic feature of the biological entity focused on specific genetic marker (or possibly locus), It depends on the composition of alleles of the genetic marker. Genotype is a part of genetic background.
This needs further elaboration. Anyway, this is what entities need to exist in the real world.
It needs neither time nor sapce to exist.
This is a element of genetic information. Natural symbol desiginated by nucleotide residues. This is identical to YAMATO's "AGCT symbol".
This is a dependent entity such as the color of this tomato, or the length of tail of a specific mouse individual. Quality type cannot exist alone but always exists dependently on physical things which also need quality types to exist.
This is a continuous quantity. However, ratios between them are not meaningful. A highly familiar example of interval scale measurement is temperature with the Celsius scale.
This is a simplified version and should be elaborated more. The size is one in any case. It is not a kind of dimension but a quantity of the size 1. This is why cm, m, etc. don't need "#" operator.
This is a quality value represents order or rank intrinsically.
This is a quality value represents order or rank intrinsically exept for unit.
It cannot exist alone but always exists dependently on physical things.
This is a dependent entity such as the color of this tomato, or the length of tail of a specific mouse individual. Attribute cannot exist alone but always exists dependently on physical things which also need attribute to exist. This class is equivalent with "quality type" of DOLCE.
This is a non-essential attribute. There is no clear boundary between intrinsic and accidental attributes in theory.
This is identical to "DNA alphabet" in YATO. This is similar to a "symbol figure" compsed of the 2D image and symbol. A form of this is molecular entity. The content is a symbol.
Space is indispensable for things to exist in the world.
This is identical to YATO's "representation form".This is what is left after extracting its meaning/content from "representation". The heart of this conceptualization is the separation between form and content.
This is Identical to YATO's "Topological whole". Its identity is tightly dependent on the topolocial relations between constituents.
This shows some aggregation of classes which can not be represented by the classification system in Particular world.
This is Identical to YATO's "Substance".
This is a dependent entity such as long, 10cm, red. Quality value reprents equivalence and difference of quality types belonging a same class, which is an important basic reality for the scientific reseach. This may be regarded as quantity in broad sense. It is just a quantity independent of what quantity it is of. That is, 10cm and 11cm exist just as it is in the quantity space and are just different. On the other hand, when a thing's length is 10cm long at time t1 and 11cm long at t2, we say the length of the thing CHANGED. The 10cm long of a thing has its identity which persists having possibly different values.
Most measurement in the physical sciences and engineering is done on ratio scales. Mass, length, time, plane angle, energy and electric charge are examples of physical measures that are ratio scales. The scale type takes its name from the fact that measurement is the estimation of the ratio between a magnitude of a continuous quantity and a unit magnitude of the same kind (Michell, 1997, 1999). Informally, the distinguishing feature of a ratio scale is the possession of a non-arbitrary zero value. For example, the Kelvin temperature scale has a non-arbitrary zero point of absolute zero, which is denoted 0K and is equal to -273.15 degrees Celsius. This zero point is non arbitrary as the particles which comprise matter at this temperature have zero kinetic energy. (wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement)
information for mouse Gdf5 wildtype itself
information for mouse Gdf5<Rgsc451> itself