fr.curie.BiNoM.pathways.biopax
Interface unificationXref

All Superinterfaces:

externalReferenceUtilityClass, com.ibm.adtech.jastor.Thing, utilityClass, xref

All Known Implementing Classes:

unificationXrefImpl

public interface unificationXref
extends xref, com.ibm.adtech.jastor.Thing

Interface for unificationXref ontology class
Use the fr.curie.BiNoM.pathways.biopax.biopax_DASH_level2_DOT_owlFactory to create instances of this interface.

(URI: http://www.biopax.org/release/biopax-level2.owl#unificationXref)

RDF Schema Standard Properties
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. 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. Comment: Unification xrefs in physical entities are essential for data integration, but are less important in interactions. This is because unification xrefs on the physical entities in an interaction can be used to compute the equivalence of two interactions of the same type. 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). Examples: 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..^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string

Field Summary

static com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource

TYPE The rdf:type for this ontology class

Fields inherited from interface fr.curie.BiNoM.pathways.biopax.xref

DB_DASH_VERSIONProperty, DBProperty, ID_DASH_VERSIONProperty, IDProperty

Fields inherited from interface fr.curie.BiNoM.pathways.biopax.utilityClass

COMMENTProperty

Fields inherited from interface com.ibm.adtech.jastor.Thing

copyright

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface fr.curie.BiNoM.pathways.biopax.xref

getDB_DASH_VERSION, getDB, getID_DASH_VERSION, getID, setDB_DASH_VERSION, setDB, setID_DASH_VERSION, setID

Methods inherited from interface fr.curie.BiNoM.pathways.biopax.utilityClass

addCOMMENT, getCOMMENT, removeCOMMENT

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.adtech.jastor.Thing

clearCache, isRDFType, listStatements, model, registerListener, removeStatements, resource, unregisterListener, uri

Field Detail

TYPE

static final com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource TYPE

The rdf:type for this ontology class