Biology Domain

The Biology Domain is a Technical Domain that encompasses Organisms and Biological Processes.

• AKA: Biological Subject Area.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) include Biological Concepts.
  • It can have a Biological Terminology, Biological Ontology.
  • It can include:
    • DNAs, RNAs, Proteins, Lipids, Sugars.
    • Cells.
    • Cellular Processes.
  • It can be studied by a Biological Scientific Discipline.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Chemistry Domain.
  • a Applied Physics Domain.
  • a Computing Domain.
• See: Protein, Gene, Biological Data, Biological Research, Chemistry Domain.

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References

2007

• (Smith et al., 2007) ⇒ Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner, Cornelius Rosse, Jonathan Bard, William Bug, Werner Ceusters, Louis J Goldberg, Karen Eilbeck, Amelia Ireland, Christopher J Mungall, The OBI Consortium, Neocles Leontis, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Alan Ruttenberg, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Richard H Scheuermann, Nigam Shah, Patricia L Whetzel, and Suzanna Lewis. (2007). “The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration.” In: Nature Biotechnology 25. doi:10.1038/nbt1346.
  • The result is an expanding family of ontologies designed to be interoperable and logically well formed and to incorporate accurate representations of biological reality. …

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