Asiyah Yu Lin (CDRH, Food and Drug Administration)
Astghik Sargsyan (Fraunhofer SCAI)
Geena Mariya Jose (Causality Biomodels)
Leon Li (NIH)
Oliver He (University of Michigan)
Shounak Baksi (Causality Biomodels)
The core Ontology of Clinical Trials (CTO) will serve as a structured resource integrating basic terms and concepts in the context of clinical trials. Thereby covering clinicaltrails.gov. CoreCTO will serve as a basic ontology to generate extended versions for specific applications such as annotation of variables in study documents from clinical trials.
Alpha Tom Kodamullil (Fraunhofer SCAI)
Johannes Darms (Fraunhofer SCAI)
Stephan Gebel (Fraunhofer SCAI)
Sumit Madan (Fraunhofer SCAI)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
CTO: Core Ontology of Clinical Trials
Version Release: 1.0.0
BFO OWL specification label
Relates an entity in the ontology to the name of the variable that is used to represent it in the code that generates the BFO OWL file from the lispy specification.
Really of interest to developers only
BFO OWL specification label
BFO OWL specification label
BFO CLIF specification label
Relates an entity in the ontology to the term that is used to represent it in the the CLIF specification of BFO2
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
Really of interest to developers only
BFO CLIF specification label
BFO CLIF specification label
editor preferred label
editor preferred label
editor preferred term
editor preferred term
editor preferred term~editor preferred label
The concise, meaningful, and human-friendly name for a class or property preferred by the ontology developers. (US-English)
PERSON:Daniel Schober
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
editor preferred label
editor preferred label
editor preferred term
editor preferred term
editor preferred term~editor preferred label
example
example of usage
A phrase describing how a class name should be used. May also include other kinds of examples that facilitate immediate understanding of a class semantics, such as widely known prototypical subclasses or instances of the class. Although essential for high level terms, examples for low level terms (e.g., Affymetrix HU133 array) are not
A phrase describing how a term should be used and/or a citation to a work which uses it. May also include other kinds of examples that facilitate immediate understanding, such as widely know prototypes or instances of a class, or cases where a relation is said to hold.
PERSON:Daniel Schober
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
example of usage
example of usage
has curation status
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON:Bill Bug
PERSON:Melanie Courtot
OBI_0000281
has curation status
has curation status
definition
definition
textual definition
A property representing the English language definitions of what NCI means by the concept. They may also include information about the definition's source and attribution in a form that can easily be interpreted by software.
English language definitions of what NCI means by the concept. These are limited to 1024 characters. They may also include information about the definition's source and attribution in a form that can easily be interpreted by software.
The official OBI definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property. Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions.
The official definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property. Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions.
2012-04-05:
Barry Smith
The official OBI definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property: 'Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions' is terrible.
Can you fix to something like:
A statement of necessary and sufficient conditions explaining the meaning of an expression referring to a class or property.
Alan Ruttenberg
Your proposed definition is a reasonable candidate, except that it is very common that necessary and sufficient conditions are not given. Mostly they are necessary, occasionally they are necessary and sufficient or just sufficient. Often they use terms that are not themselves defined and so they effectively can't be evaluated by those criteria.
On the specifics of the proposed definition:
We don't have definitions of 'meaning' or 'expression' or 'property'. For 'reference' in the intended sense I think we use the term 'denotation'. For 'expression', I think we you mean symbol, or identifier. For 'meaning' it differs for class and property. For class we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine whether an entity is instance of the class, or not. For property we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine, given a pair of potential relata, whether the assertion that the relation holds is true. The 'intended reader' part suggests that we also specify who, we expect, would be able to understand the definition, and also generalizes over human and computer reader to include textual and logical definition.
Personally, I am more comfortable weakening definition to documentation, with instructions as to what is desirable.
We also have the outstanding issue of how to aim different definitions to different audiences. A clinical audience reading chebi wants a different sort of definition documentation/definition from a chemistry trained audience, and similarly there is a need for a definition that is adequate for an ontologist to work with.
2012-04-05:
Barry Smith
The official OBI definition, explaining the meaning of a class or property: 'Shall be Aristotelian, formalized and normalized. Can be augmented with colloquial definitions' is terrible.
Can you fix to something like:
A statement of necessary and sufficient conditions explaining the meaning of an expression referring to a class or property.
Alan Ruttenberg
Your proposed definition is a reasonable candidate, except that it is very common that necessary and sufficient conditions are not given. Mostly they are necessary, occasionally they are necessary and sufficient or just sufficient. Often they use terms that are not themselves defined and so they effectively can't be evaluated by those criteria.
On the specifics of the proposed definition:
We don't have definitions of 'meaning' or 'expression' or 'property'. For 'reference' in the intended sense I think we use the term 'denotation'. For 'expression', I think we you mean symbol, or identifier. For 'meaning' it differs for class and property. For class we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine whether an entity is instance of the class, or not. For property we want documentation that let's the intended reader determine, given a pair of potential relata, whether the assertion that the relation holds is true. The 'intended reader' part suggests that we also specify who, we expect, would be able to understand the definition, and also generalizes over human and computer reader to include textual and logical definition.
Personally, I am more comfortable weakening definition to documentation, with instructions as to what is desirable.
We also have the outstanding issue of how to aim different definitions to different audiences. A clinical audience reading chebi wants a different sort of definition documentation/definition from a chemistry trained audience, and similarly there is a need for a definition that is adequate for an ontologist to work with.
PERSON:Daniel Schober
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
DEFINITION
definition
definition
textual definition
editor note
An administrative note intended for its editor. It may not be included in the publication version of the ontology, so it should contain nothing necessary for end users to understand the ontology.
PERSON:Daniel Schober
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obfoundry.org/obo/obi>
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obofoundry.org/obo/obi>
IAO:0000116
uberon
editor_note
1
editor_note
editor note
editor note
definition editor
term editor
Name of editor entering the definition in the file. The definition editor is a point of contact for information regarding the term. The definition editor may be, but is not always, the author of the definition, which may have been worked upon by several people
Name of editor entering the term in the file. The term editor is a point of contact for information regarding the term. The term editor may be, but is not always, the author of the definition, which may have been worked upon by several people
20110707, MC: label update to term editor and definition modified accordingly. See http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=115.
20110707, MC: label update to term editor and definition modified accordingly. See https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/115.
PERSON:Daniel Schober
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
definition editor
definition editor
term editor
term editor
alternative term
An alternative name for a class or property which means the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent)
PERSON:Daniel Schober
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
alternative term
alternative term
definition source
Formal citation, e.g. identifier in external database to indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. Free text indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. EXAMPLE: Author Name, URI, MeSH Term C04, PUBMED ID, Wiki uri on 31.01.2007
formal citation, e.g. identifier in external database to indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. Free text indicate / attribute source(s) for the definition. EXAMPLE: Author Name, URI, MeSH Term C04, PUBMED ID, Wiki uri on 31.01.2007
PERSON:Daniel Schober
Discussion on obo-discuss mailing-list, see http://bit.ly/hgm99w
Discussion on obo-discuss mailing-list, see http://bit.ly/hgm99w
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
definition source
definition source
curator note
An administrative note of use for a curator but of no use for a user
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
IAO:0000232
uberon
curator_notes
1
curator_notes
curator note
curator note
curator notes
term tracker item
the URI for an OBI Terms ticket at sourceforge, such as https://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/772/
An IRI or similar locator for a request or discussion of an ontology term.
Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Alan Ruttenberg
Person: Jie Zheng, Chris Stoeckert, Alan Ruttenberg
The 'tracker item' can associate a tracker with a specific ontology term.
term tracker item
imported from
For external terms/classes, the ontology from which the term was imported
PERSON:Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON:Melanie Courtot
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
imported from
imported from
elucidation
person:Alan Ruttenberg
Person:Barry Smith
Primitive terms in a highest-level ontology such as BFO are terms which are so basic to our understanding of reality that there is no way of defining them in a non-circular fashion. For these, therefore, we can provide only elucidations, supplemented by examples and by axioms
elucidation
elucidation
has associated axiom(nl)
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
An axiom associated with a term expressed using natural language
has associated axiom(nl)
has associated axiom(nl)
has associated axiom(fol)
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
An axiom expressed in first order logic using CLIF syntax
has associated axiom(fol)
has associated axiom(fol)
has axiom label
A property created to allow the source NICHD to assign a parent to each concept with the intent of creating a hierarchy that includes only terms in which they are the contributing source.
An association created to allow the source NICHD to assign a parent to each concept with the intent of creating a hierarchy that includes only terms in which they are a contributing source.
A11
Conceptual Entity
Has_NICHD_Parent
Has_NICHD_Parent
Has_NICHD_Parent
true
A property representing a concept unique identifier within the NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Service's NCI Thesaurus.
NHC0
code
code
code
A property that represents a description of the sort of thing or category to which a concept belongs in the context of the UMLS semantic network.
The semantic type describes the sort of thing or category to which a concept belongs in the context of the UMLS semantic network.
P106
Conceptual Entity
Semantic Type
Semantic_Type
In general, applying semantic types aids in allowing users (or computer programs) to draw conclusions about concepts by virtue of the categories to which they have been assigned. We use a set of semantic types developed for the UMLS Metathesaurus. There are currently 134 semantic types in the UMLS.
Semantic_Type
Semantic_Type
A property representing an alternative Preferred Name for use in some NCI systems.
Provides an alternative Preferred Name for use in some NCI systems.
P107
Conceptual Entity
Display Name
Display_Name
Display Name
Display_Name
Display_Name
A property representing the word or phrase that NCI uses by preference to refer to the concept.
The word or phrase that NCI uses by preference to refer to the concept.
P108
Conceptual Entity
Preferred Name
Preferred_Name
Preferred Name
Preferred Term
Preferred_Name
Preferred_Name
A property representing the concept unique identifier (CUI) assigned by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). If a concept in any NCI-maintained knowledgebase exists in the NLM Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), NCI includes the NLM CUI among the information we provide about the concept.
Concept Unique Identifiers, or CUIs, are concept numbers assigned by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). If a concept in any NCI-maintained knowledgebase exists in the NLM Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), NCI includes the NLM CUI among the information we provide about the concept.
P207
Conceptual Entity
UMLS CUI
UMLS_CUI
UMLS_CUI
UMLS_CUI
A property representing the concept unique identifier (CUI) for those concepts that appear in NCI Metathesaurus but not in the National Library of Medicine Unified Medical Language System (NLM UMLS).
P208
Conceptual Entity
NCI Metathesaurus CUI
NCI_META_CUI
NCI_META_CUI
NCI_META_CUI
A property is used to indicate when a non-EVS entity has contributed to, and has a stake in, a concept. This is used where such entities, within or outside NCI, have indicated the need to be able to track their own concepts. A single concept can have multiple instances of this property if multiple entities have such a defined stake.
This property is used to indicate when a non-EVS entity has contributed to, and has a stake in, a concept. This is used where such entities, within or outside NCI, have indicated the need to be able to track their own concepts. A single concept can have multiple instances of this property if multiple entities have such a defined stake.
P322
Conceptual Entity
Contributing Source
Contributing_Source
Contributing_Source
Contributing_Source
A property representing the English language definition of a concept from a source other than NCI.
English language definitions of what a source other than NCI means by the concept. These are limited to 1024 characters. They include information about the definition's source in a form that can easily be interpreted by software.
P325
Conceptual Entity
[source] Definition
ALT_DEFINITION
ALT_DEFINITION
ALT_DEFINITION
true
A property representing a retired unique concept identifier created and stored as Concept Name by legacy EVS software. Use of these values was long discouraged, but continued as late as 2009 when creation of new values ceased and Concept Name was retired. Legacy values are intended solely to help resolve and update earlier coding.
A retired unique concept identifier created and stored as Concept Name by legacy EVS software. Use of these values was long discouraged, but continued as late as 2009 when creation of new values ceased and Concept Name was retired. Legacy values are intended solely to help resolve and update earlier coding.
P366
Conceptual Entity
Legacy Concept Name
Legacy Concept Name
Legacy_Concept_Name
A property representing a term chosen by NICHD to be used in the representation of the NICHD hierarchy.
P371
Conceptual Entity
NICHD_Hierarchy_Term
NICHD
NICHD_Hierarchy_Term
NICHD_Hierarchy_Term
A property representing that a term in another terminology has been mapped to a term in NCIt and describes the relationship between the mapped terms.
P375
Conceptual Entity
Maps_To
Maps_To
Maps_To
A property representing notations made by NCI vocabulary curators. They are intended to provide supplemental, unstructured information to the user or additional insight about the concept.
Design notes are notations made by NCI vocabulary curators. They are intended to provide supplemental, unstructured information to the user or additional insight about the concept.
P98
Conceptual Entity
DesignNote
DesignNote
DesignNote
DesignNote
ISA alternative term
An alternative term used by the ISA tools project (http://isa-tools.org).
Requested by Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3603413&group_id=177891&atid=886178
Person: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran
Person: Philippe Rocca-Serra
ISA tools project (http://isa-tools.org)
ISA alternative term
NIAID GSCID-BRC alternative term
An alternative term used by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Genomic Sequencing Centers for Infectious Diseases (GSCID) and Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC).
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert, Jie Zheng
NIAID GSCID-BRC metadata working group
NIAID GSCID-BRC alternative term
IEDB alternative term
An alternative term used by the IEDB.
PERSON:Randi Vita, Jason Greenbaum, Bjoern Peters
IEDB
IEDB alternative term
An annotation property that refers to a code defined by NCIT
NCIT code
A metadata relation between a class and its taxonomic rank (eg species, family)
ncbi_taxonomy
has_rank
Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract,
table of contents, reference to a graphical representation
of content or a free-text account of the content.
An account of the content of the resource.
Description
Description
The present resource may be derived from the Source resource
in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to reference
the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a
formal identification system.
A reference to a resource from which the present resource
is derived.
Source
Source
has_alternative_id
database_cross_reference
A property representing a fully qualified synonym, contains the string, term type, source, and an optional source code if appropriate. Each subfield is deliniated to facilitate interpretation by software.
Fully qualified synonym, contains the string, term type, source, and an optional source code if appropriate. Each subfield is deliniated to facilitate interpretation by software.
FULL_SYN
Synonym with Source Data
has exact synonym
has_exact_synonym
has_narrow_synonym
has_obo_namespace
has_related_synonym
An association that connects the concept defining a particular terminology subset with concepts that belong to this subset.
Used to associate the concept defining a particular terminology subset with concepts that belong to this subset.
Concept_In_Subset
in subset
in_subset
shorthand
label
label
label
has part
realizes
preceded by
preceded_by
is about
has_specified_input
has process quality
has participant
concretizes
has role
Any portion of roundup 'has active ingredient' some glyphosate
A relationship that holds between a substance and a chemical entity, if the chemical entity is part of the substance, and the chemical entity forms the biologically active component of the substance.
has active substance
has active pharmaceutical ingredient
has active ingredient
active ingredient in
entity
Entity
Julius Caesar
Verdi’s Requiem
the Second World War
your body mass index
BFO 2 Reference: In all areas of empirical inquiry we encounter general terms of two sorts. First are general terms which refer to universals or types:animaltuberculosissurgical procedurediseaseSecond, are general terms used to refer to groups of entities which instantiate a given universal but do not correspond to the extension of any subuniversal of that universal because there is nothing intrinsic to the entities in question by virtue of which they – and only they – are counted as belonging to the given group. Examples are: animal purchased by the Emperortuberculosis diagnosed on a Wednesdaysurgical procedure performed on a patient from Stockholmperson identified as candidate for clinical trial #2056-555person who is signatory of Form 656-PPVpainting by Leonardo da VinciSuch terms, which represent what are called ‘specializations’ in [81
Entity doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example Werner Ceusters 'portions of reality' include 4 sorts, entities (as BFO construes them), universals, configurations, and relations. It is an open question as to whether entities as construed in BFO will at some point also include these other portions of reality. See, for example, 'How to track absolutely everything' at http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf
An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [001-001])
entity
Entity doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example Werner Ceusters 'portions of reality' include 4 sorts, entities (as BFO construes them), universals, configurations, and relations. It is an open question as to whether entities as construed in BFO will at some point also include these other portions of reality. See, for example, 'How to track absolutely everything' at http://www.referent-tracking.com/_RTU/papers/CeustersICbookRevised.pdf
per discussion with Barry Smith
An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [001-001])
continuant
Continuant
An entity that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts.
BFO 2 Reference: Continuant entities are entities which can be sliced to yield parts only along the spatial dimension, yielding for example the parts of your table which we call its legs, its top, its nails. ‘My desk stretches from the window to the door. It has spatial parts, and can be sliced (in space) in two. With respect to time, however, a thing is a continuant.’ [60, p. 240
Continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example, in an expansion involving bringing in some of Ceuster's other portions of reality, questions are raised as to whether universals are continuants
A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [008-002])
if b is a continuant and if, for some t, c has_continuant_part b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [126-001])
if b is a continuant and if, for some t, cis continuant_part of b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [009-002])
if b is a material entity, then there is some temporal interval (referred to below as a one-dimensional temporal region) during which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [011-002])
(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (continuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [009-002]
(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (hasContinuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [126-001]
(forall (x) (if (Continuant x) (Entity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [008-002]
(forall (x) (if (Material Entity x) (exists (t) (and (TemporalRegion t) (existsAt x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [011-002]
continuant
(forall (x) (if (Continuant x) (Entity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [008-002]
(forall (x) (if (Material Entity x) (exists (t) (and (TemporalRegion t) (existsAt x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [011-002]
Continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. For example, in an expansion involving bringing in some of Ceuster's other portions of reality, questions are raised as to whether universals are continuants
A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [008-002])
if b is a continuant and if, for some t, c has_continuant_part b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [126-001])
if b is a continuant and if, for some t, cis continuant_part of b at t, then c is a continuant. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [009-002])
if b is a material entity, then there is some temporal interval (referred to below as a one-dimensional temporal region) during which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [011-002])
(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (continuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [009-002]
(forall (x y) (if (and (Continuant x) (exists (t) (hasContinuantPartOfAt y x t))) (Continuant y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [126-001]
occurrent
Occurrent
BFO 2 Reference: every occurrent that is not a temporal or spatiotemporal region is s-dependent on some independent continuant that is not a spatial region
BFO 2 Reference: s-dependence obtains between every process and its participants in the sense that, as a matter of necessity, this process could not have existed unless these or those participants existed also. A process may have a succession of participants at different phases of its unfolding. Thus there may be different players on the field at different times during the course of a football game; but the process which is the entire game s-depends_on all of these players nonetheless. Some temporal parts of this process will s-depend_on on only some of the players.
Occurrent doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.
Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.
An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [077-002])
Every occurrent occupies_spatiotemporal_region some spatiotemporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [108-001])
b is an occurrent entity iff b is an entity that has temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [079-001])
(forall (x) (if (Occurrent x) (exists (r) (and (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x r))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [108-001]
(forall (x) (iff (Occurrent x) (and (Entity x) (exists (y) (temporalPartOf y x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [079-001]
occurrent
Occurrent doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.
per discussion with Barry Smith
Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.
An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the instantaneous boundary of such an entity (for example a beginning or an ending) or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region which such an entity occupies_temporal_region or occupies_spatiotemporal_region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [077-002])
Every occurrent occupies_spatiotemporal_region some spatiotemporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [108-001])
b is an occurrent entity iff b is an entity that has temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [079-001])
(forall (x) (if (Occurrent x) (exists (r) (and (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x r))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [108-001]
(forall (x) (iff (Occurrent x) (and (Entity x) (exists (y) (temporalPartOf y x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [079-001]
ic
IndependentContinuant
a chair
a heart
a leg
a molecule
a spatial region
an atom
an orchestra.
an organism
the bottom right portion of a human torso
the interior of your mouth
b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])
For any independent continuant b and any time t there is some spatial region r such that b is located_in r at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [134-001])
For every independent continuant b and time t during the region of time spanned by its life, there are entities which s-depends_on b during t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [018-002])
(forall (x t) (if (IndependentContinuant x) (exists (r) (and (SpatialRegion r) (locatedInAt x r t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [134-001]
(forall (x t) (if (and (IndependentContinuant x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (Entity y) (specificallyDependsOnAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [018-002]
(iff (IndependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (not (exists (b t) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [017-002]
independent continuant
b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])
For any independent continuant b and any time t there is some spatial region r such that b is located_in r at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [134-001])
For every independent continuant b and time t during the region of time spanned by its life, there are entities which s-depends_on b during t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [018-002])
(forall (x t) (if (IndependentContinuant x) (exists (r) (and (SpatialRegion r) (locatedInAt x r t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [134-001]
(forall (x t) (if (and (IndependentContinuant x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (Entity y) (specificallyDependsOnAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [018-002]
(iff (IndependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (not (exists (b t) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [017-002]
s-region
SpatialRegion
BFO 2 Reference: Spatial regions do not participate in processes.
Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.
A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])
All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])
(forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001]
(forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001]
spatial region
Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional.
per discussion with Barry Smith
A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])
All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])
(forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001]
(forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001]
t-region
TemporalRegion
Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional
A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])
All parts of temporal regions are temporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [101-001])
Every temporal region t is such that t occupies_temporal_region t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [119-002])
(forall (r) (if (TemporalRegion r) (occupiesTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [119-002]
(forall (x y) (if (and (TemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (TemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [101-001]
(forall (x) (if (TemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [100-001]
temporal region
Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional
per discussion with Barry Smith
A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])
All parts of temporal regions are temporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [101-001])
Every temporal region t is such that t occupies_temporal_region t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [119-002])
(forall (r) (if (TemporalRegion r) (occupiesTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [119-002]
(forall (x y) (if (and (TemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (TemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [101-001]
(forall (x) (if (TemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [100-001]
2d-s-region
TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion
an infinitely thin plane in space.
the surface of a sphere-shaped part of space
A two-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of two dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [039-001])
(forall (x) (if (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [039-001]
two-dimensional spatial region
A two-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of two dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [039-001])
(forall (x) (if (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [039-001]
st-region
SpatiotemporalRegion
the spatiotemporal region occupied by a human life
the spatiotemporal region occupied by a process of cellular meiosis.
the spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumor
A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of spacetime. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [095-001])
All parts of spatiotemporal regions are spatiotemporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [096-001])
Each spatiotemporal region at any time t projects_onto some spatial region at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [099-001])
Each spatiotemporal region projects_onto some temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [098-001])
Every spatiotemporal region occupies_spatiotemporal_region itself.
Every spatiotemporal region s is such that s occupies_spatiotemporal_region s. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [107-002])
(forall (r) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [107-002]
(forall (x t) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (SpatialRegion y) (spatiallyProjectsOntoAt x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [099-001]
(forall (x y) (if (and (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (SpatioTemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [096-001]
(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [095-001]
(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (TemporalRegion y) (temporallyProjectsOnto x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [098-001]
spatiotemporal region
A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of spacetime. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [095-001])
All parts of spatiotemporal regions are spatiotemporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [096-001])
Each spatiotemporal region at any time t projects_onto some spatial region at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [099-001])
Each spatiotemporal region projects_onto some temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [098-001])
Every spatiotemporal region s is such that s occupies_spatiotemporal_region s. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [107-002])
(forall (r) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion r) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [107-002]
(forall (x t) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (SpatialRegion y) (spatiallyProjectsOntoAt x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [099-001]
(forall (x y) (if (and (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (SpatioTemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [096-001]
(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [095-001]
(forall (x) (if (SpatioTemporalRegion x) (exists (y) (and (TemporalRegion y) (temporallyProjectsOnto x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [098-001]
process
Process
a process of cell-division, \ a beating of the heart
a process of meiosis
a process of sleeping
the course of a disease
the flight of a bird
the life of an organism
your process of aging.
An occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t.
p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])
BFO 2 Reference: The realm of occurrents is less pervasively marked by the presence of natural units than is the case in the realm of independent continuants. Thus there is here no counterpart of ‘object’. In BFO 1.0 ‘process’ served as such a counterpart. In BFO 2.0 ‘process’ is, rather, the occurrent counterpart of ‘material entity’. Those natural – as contrasted with engineered, which here means: deliberately executed – units which do exist in the realm of occurrents are typically either parasitic on the existence of natural units on the continuant side, or they are fiat in nature. Thus we can count lives; we can count football games; we can count chemical reactions performed in experiments or in chemical manufacturing. We cannot count the processes taking place, for instance, in an episode of insect mating behavior.Even where natural units are identifiable, for example cycles in a cyclical process such as the beating of a heart or an organism’s sleep/wake cycle, the processes in question form a sequence with no discontinuities (temporal gaps) of the sort that we find for instance where billiard balls or zebrafish or planets are separated by clear spatial gaps. Lives of organisms are process units, but they too unfold in a continuous series from other, prior processes such as fertilization, and they unfold in turn in continuous series of post-life processes such as post-mortem decay. Clear examples of boundaries of processes are almost always of the fiat sort (midnight, a time of death as declared in an operating theater or on a death certificate, the initiation of a state of war)
(iff (Process a) (and (Occurrent a) (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)) (exists (c t) (and (MaterialEntity c) (specificallyDependsOnAt a c t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [083-003]
process
p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])
(iff (Process a) (and (Occurrent a) (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)) (exists (c t) (and (MaterialEntity c) (specificallyDependsOnAt a c t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [083-003]
disposition
Disposition
an atom of element X has the disposition to decay to an atom of element Y
certain people have a predisposition to colon cancer
children are innately disposed to categorize objects in certain ways.
the cell wall is disposed to filter chemicals in endocytosis and exocytosis
BFO 2 Reference: Dispositions exist along a strength continuum. Weaker forms of disposition are realized in only a fraction of triggering cases. These forms occur in a significant number of cases of a similar type.
b is a disposition means: b is a realizable entity & b’s bearer is some material entity & b is such that if it ceases to exist, then its bearer is physically changed, & b’s realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances, & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [062-002])
If b is a realizable entity then for all t at which b exists, b s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [063-002])
(forall (x t) (if (and (RealizableEntity x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (specificallyDepends x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [063-002]
(forall (x) (if (Disposition x) (and (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (bearerOfAt x y t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [062-002]
disposition
b is a disposition means: b is a realizable entity & b’s bearer is some material entity & b is such that if it ceases to exist, then its bearer is physically changed, & b’s realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances, & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [062-002])
If b is a realizable entity then for all t at which b exists, b s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [063-002])
(forall (x t) (if (and (RealizableEntity x) (existsAt x t)) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (specificallyDepends x y t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [063-002]
(forall (x) (if (Disposition x) (and (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (MaterialEntity y) (bearerOfAt x y t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [062-002]
realizable
RealizableEntity
the disposition of this piece of metal to conduct electricity.
the disposition of your blood to coagulate
the function of your reproductive organs
the role of being a doctor
the role of this boundary to delineate where Utah and Colorado meet
A specifically dependent continuant that inheres in continuant entities and are not exhibited in full at every time in which it inheres in an entity or group of entities. The exhibition or actualization of a realizable entity is a particular manifestation, functioning or process that occurs under certain circumstances.
To say that b is a realizable entity is to say that b is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region and is of a type instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [058-002])
All realizable dependent continuants have independent continuants that are not spatial regions as their bearers. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [060-002])
(forall (x t) (if (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (bearerOfAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [060-002]
(forall (x) (if (RealizableEntity x) (and (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (inheresIn x y)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [058-002]
realizable entity
To say that b is a realizable entity is to say that b is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region and is of a type instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [058-002])
All realizable dependent continuants have independent continuants that are not spatial regions as their bearers. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [060-002])
(forall (x t) (if (RealizableEntity x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (bearerOfAt y x t))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [060-002]
(forall (x) (if (RealizableEntity x) (and (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x) (exists (y) (and (IndependentContinuant y) (not (SpatialRegion y)) (inheresIn x y)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [058-002]
0d-s-region
ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion
A zero-dimensional spatial region is a point in space. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [037-001])
(forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [037-001]
zero-dimensional spatial region
A zero-dimensional spatial region is a point in space. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [037-001])
(forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [037-001]
quality
Quality
the ambient temperature of this portion of air
the color of a tomato
the length of the circumference of your waist
the mass of this piece of gold.
the shape of your nose
the shape of your nostril
a quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [055-001])
If an entity is a quality at any time that it exists, then it is a quality at every time that it exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [105-001])
(forall (x) (if (Quality x) (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [055-001]
(forall (x) (if (exists (t) (and (existsAt x t) (Quality x))) (forall (t_1) (if (existsAt x t_1) (Quality x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [105-001]
quality
a quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [055-001])
If an entity is a quality at any time that it exists, then it is a quality at every time that it exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [105-001])
(forall (x) (if (Quality x) (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [055-001]
(forall (x) (if (exists (t) (and (existsAt x t) (Quality x))) (forall (t_1) (if (existsAt x t_1) (Quality x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [105-001]
sdc
SpecificallyDependentContinuant
Reciprocal specifically dependent continuants: the function of this key to open this lock and the mutually dependent disposition of this lock: to be opened by this key
of one-sided specifically dependent continuants: the mass of this tomato
of relational dependent continuants (multiple bearers): John’s love for Mary, the ownership relation between John and this statue, the relation of authority between John and his subordinates.
the disposition of this fish to decay
the function of this heart: to pump blood
the mutual dependence of proton donors and acceptors in chemical reactions [79
the mutual dependence of the role predator and the role prey as played by two organisms in a given interaction
the pink color of a medium rare piece of grilled filet mignon at its center
the role of being a doctor
the shape of this hole.
the smell of this portion of mozzarella
b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])
Specifically dependent continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. We're not sure what else will develop here, but for example there are questions such as what are promises, obligation, etc.
(iff (SpecificallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (forall (t) (if (existsAt a t) (exists (b) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (not (SpatialRegion b)) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [050-003]
specifically dependent continuant
b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])
Specifically dependent continuant doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. We're not sure what else will develop here, but for example there are questions such as what are promises, obligation, etc.
per discussion with Barry Smith
(iff (SpecificallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (forall (t) (if (existsAt a t) (exists (b) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (not (SpatialRegion b)) (specificallyDependsOnAt a b t))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [050-003]
role
Role
John’s role of husband to Mary is dependent on Mary’s role of wife to John, and both are dependent on the object aggregate comprising John and Mary as member parts joined together through the relational quality of being married.
the priest role
the role of a boundary to demarcate two neighboring administrative territories
the role of a building in serving as a military target
the role of a stone in marking a property boundary
the role of subject in a clinical trial
the student role
A realizable entity the manifestation of which brings about some result or end that is not essential to a continuant in virtue of the kind of thing that it is but that can be served or participated in by that kind of continuant in some kinds of natural, social or institutional contexts.
BFO 2 Reference: One major family of examples of non-rigid universals involves roles, and ontologies developed for corresponding administrative purposes may consist entirely of representatives of entities of this sort. Thus ‘professor’, defined as follows,b instance_of professor at t =Def. there is some c, c instance_of professor role & c inheres_in b at t.denotes a non-rigid universal and so also do ‘nurse’, ‘student’, ‘colonel’, ‘taxpayer’, and so forth. (These terms are all, in the jargon of philosophy, phase sortals.) By using role terms in definitions, we can create a BFO conformant treatment of such entities drawing on the fact that, while an instance of professor may be simultaneously an instance of trade union member, no instance of the type professor role is also (at any time) an instance of the type trade union member role (any more than any instance of the type color is at any time an instance of the type length).If an ontology of employment positions should be defined in terms of roles following the above pattern, this enables the ontology to do justice to the fact that individuals instantiate the corresponding universals – professor, sergeant, nurse – only during certain phases in their lives.
b is a role means: b is a realizable entity & b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be& b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [061-001])
(forall (x) (if (Role x) (RealizableEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [061-001]
role
b is a role means: b is a realizable entity & b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be& b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [061-001])
(forall (x) (if (Role x) (RealizableEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [061-001]
fiat-object-part
FiatObjectPart
or with divisions drawn by cognitive subjects for practical reasons, such as the division of a cake (before slicing) into (what will become) slices (and thus member parts of an object aggregate). However, this does not mean that fiat object parts are dependent for their existence on divisions or delineations effected by cognitive subjects. If, for example, it is correct to conceive geological layers of the Earth as fiat object parts of the Earth, then even though these layers were first delineated in recent times, still existed long before such delineation and what holds of these layers (for example that the oldest layers are also the lowest layers) did not begin to hold because of our acts of delineation.Treatment of material entity in BFOExamples viewed by some as problematic cases for the trichotomy of fiat object part, object, and object aggregate include: a mussel on (and attached to) a rock, a slime mold, a pizza, a cloud, a galaxy, a railway train with engine and multiple carriages, a clonal stand of quaking aspen, a bacterial community (biofilm), a broken femur. Note that, as Aristotle already clearly recognized, such problematic cases – which lie at or near the penumbra of instances defined by the categories in question – need not invalidate these categories. The existence of grey objects does not prove that there are not objects which are black and objects which are white; the existence of mules does not prove that there are not objects which are donkeys and objects which are horses. It does, however, show that the examples in question need to be addressed carefully in order to show how they can be fitted into the proposed scheme, for example by recognizing additional subdivisions [29
the FMA:regional parts of an intact human body.
the Western hemisphere of the Earth
the division of the brain into regions
the division of the planet into hemispheres
the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the body
the upper and lower lobes of the left lung
BFO 2 Reference: Most examples of fiat object parts are associated with theoretically drawn divisions
b is a fiat object part = Def. b is a material entity which is such that for all times t, if b exists at t then there is some object c such that b proper continuant_part of c at t and c is demarcated from the remainder of c by a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [027-004])
(forall (x) (if (FiatObjectPart x) (and (MaterialEntity x) (forall (t) (if (existsAt x t) (exists (y) (and (Object y) (properContinuantPartOfAt x y t)))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [027-004]
fiat object part
b is a fiat object part = Def. b is a material entity which is such that for all times t, if b exists at t then there is some object c such that b proper continuant_part of c at t and c is demarcated from the remainder of c by a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [027-004])
(forall (x) (if (FiatObjectPart x) (and (MaterialEntity x) (forall (t) (if (existsAt x t) (exists (y) (and (Object y) (properContinuantPartOfAt x y t)))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [027-004]
1d-s-region
OneDimensionalSpatialRegion
an edge of a cube-shaped portion of space.
A one-dimensional spatial region is a line or aggregate of lines stretching from one point in space to another. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [038-001])
(forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [038-001]
one-dimensional spatial region
A one-dimensional spatial region is a line or aggregate of lines stretching from one point in space to another. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [038-001])
(forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [038-001]
object-aggregate
ObjectAggregate
a collection of cells in a blood biobank.
a swarm of bees is an aggregate of members who are linked together through natural bonds
a symphony orchestra
an organization is an aggregate whose member parts have roles of specific types (for example in a jazz band, a chess club, a football team)
defined by fiat: the aggregate of members of an organization
defined through physical attachment: the aggregate of atoms in a lump of granite
defined through physical containment: the aggregate of molecules of carbon dioxide in a sealed container
defined via attributive delimitations such as: the patients in this hospital
the aggregate of bearings in a constant velocity axle joint
the aggregate of blood cells in your body
the nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere
the restaurants in Palo Alto
your collection of Meissen ceramic plates.
An entity a is an object aggregate if and only if there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of a into objects
BFO 2 Reference: object aggregates may gain and lose parts while remaining numerically identical (one and the same individual) over time. This holds both for aggregates whose membership is determined naturally (the aggregate of cells in your body) and aggregates determined by fiat (a baseball team, a congressional committee).
ISBN:978-3-938793-98-5pp124-158#Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, 'A Theory of Granular Partitions', in K. Munn and B. Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 125-158.
b is an object aggregate means: b is a material entity consisting exactly of a plurality of objects as member_parts at all times at which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [025-004])
(forall (x) (if (ObjectAggregate x) (and (MaterialEntity x) (forall (t) (if (existsAt x t) (exists (y z) (and (Object y) (Object z) (memberPartOfAt y x t) (memberPartOfAt z x t) (not (= y z)))))) (not (exists (w t_1) (and (memberPartOfAt w x t_1) (not (Object w)))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [025-004]
object aggregate
An entity a is an object aggregate if and only if there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of a into objects
An entity a is an object aggregate if and only if there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of a into objects
ISBN:978-3-938793-98-5pp124-158#Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, 'A Theory of Granular Partitions', in K. Munn and B. Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 125-158.
b is an object aggregate means: b is a material entity consisting exactly of a plurality of objects as member_parts at all times at which b exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [025-004])
(forall (x) (if (ObjectAggregate x) (and (MaterialEntity x) (forall (t) (if (existsAt x t) (exists (y z) (and (Object y) (Object z) (memberPartOfAt y x t) (memberPartOfAt z x t) (not (= y z)))))) (not (exists (w t_1) (and (memberPartOfAt w x t_1) (not (Object w)))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [025-004]
3d-s-region
ThreeDimensionalSpatialRegion
a cube-shaped region of space
a sphere-shaped region of space,
A three-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of three dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [040-001])
(forall (x) (if (ThreeDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [040-001]
three-dimensional spatial region
A three-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is of three dimensions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [040-001])
(forall (x) (if (ThreeDimensionalSpatialRegion x) (SpatialRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [040-001]
site
Site
Manhattan Canyon)
a hole in the interior of a portion of cheese
a rabbit hole
an air traffic control region defined in the airspace above an airport
the Grand Canyon
the Piazza San Marco
the cockpit of an aircraft
the hold of a ship
the interior of a kangaroo pouch
the interior of the trunk of your car
the interior of your bedroom
the interior of your office
the interior of your refrigerator
the lumen of your gut
your left nostril (a fiat part – the opening – of your left nasal cavity)
b is a site means: b is a three-dimensional immaterial entity that is (partially or wholly) bounded by a material entity or it is a three-dimensional immaterial part thereof. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [034-002])
(forall (x) (if (Site x) (ImmaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [034-002]
site
b is a site means: b is a three-dimensional immaterial entity that is (partially or wholly) bounded by a material entity or it is a three-dimensional immaterial part thereof. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [034-002])
(forall (x) (if (Site x) (ImmaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [034-002]
object
Object
atom
cell
cells and organisms
engineered artifacts
grain of sand
molecule
organelle
organism
planet
solid portions of matter
star
BFO 2 Reference: BFO rests on the presupposition that at multiple micro-, meso- and macroscopic scales reality exhibits certain stable, spatially separated or separable material units, combined or combinable into aggregates of various sorts (for example organisms into what are called ‘populations’). Such units play a central role in almost all domains of natural science from particle physics to cosmology. Many scientific laws govern the units in question, employing general terms (such as ‘molecule’ or ‘planet’) referring to the types and subtypes of units, and also to the types and subtypes of the processes through which such units develop and interact. The division of reality into such natural units is at the heart of biological science, as also is the fact that these units may form higher-level units (as cells form multicellular organisms) and that they may also form aggregates of units, for example as cells form portions of tissue and organs form families, herds, breeds, species, and so on. At the same time, the division of certain portions of reality into engineered units (manufactured artifacts) is the basis of modern industrial technology, which rests on the distributed mass production of engineered parts through division of labor and on their assembly into larger, compound units such as cars and laptops. The division of portions of reality into units is one starting point for the phenomenon of counting.
BFO 2 Reference: Each object is such that there are entities of which we can assert unproblematically that they lie in its interior, and other entities of which we can assert unproblematically that they lie in its exterior. This may not be so for entities lying at or near the boundary between the interior and exterior. This means that two objects – for example the two cells depicted in Figure 3 – may be such that there are material entities crossing their boundaries which belong determinately to neither cell. Something similar obtains in certain cases of conjoined twins (see below).
BFO 2 Reference: To say that b is causally unified means: b is a material entity which is such that its material parts are tied together in such a way that, in environments typical for entities of the type in question,if c, a continuant part of b that is in the interior of b at t, is larger than a certain threshold size (which will be determined differently from case to case, depending on factors such as porosity of external cover) and is moved in space to be at t at a location on the exterior of the spatial region that had been occupied by b at t, then either b’s other parts will be moved in coordinated fashion or b will be damaged (be affected, for example, by breakage or tearing) in the interval between t and t.causal changes in one part of b can have consequences for other parts of b without the mediation of any entity that lies on the exterior of b. Material entities with no proper material parts would satisfy these conditions trivially. Candidate examples of types of causal unity for material entities of more complex sorts are as follows (this is not intended to be an exhaustive list):CU1: Causal unity via physical coveringHere the parts in the interior of the unified entity are combined together causally through a common membrane or other physical covering\. The latter points outwards toward and may serve a protective function in relation to what lies on the exterior of the entity [13, 47
BFO 2 Reference: an object is a maximal causally unified material entity
BFO 2 Reference: ‘objects’ are sometimes referred to as ‘grains’ [74
b is an object means: b is a material entity which manifests causal unity of one or other of the types CUn listed above & is of a type (a material universal) instances of which are maximal relative to this criterion of causal unity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [024-001])
object
b is an object means: b is a material entity which manifests causal unity of one or other of the types CUn listed above & is of a type (a material universal) instances of which are maximal relative to this criterion of causal unity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [024-001])
gdc
GenericallyDependentContinuant
The entries in your database are patterns instantiated as quality instances in your hard drive. The database itself is an aggregate of such patterns. When you create the database you create a particular instance of the generically dependent continuant type database. Each entry in the database is an instance of the generically dependent continuant type IAO: information content entity.
the pdf file on your laptop, the pdf file that is a copy thereof on my laptop
the sequence of this protein molecule; the sequence that is a copy thereof in that protein molecule.
A continuant that is dependent on one or other independent continuant bearers. For every instance of A requires some instance of (an independent continuant type) B but which instance of B serves can change from time to time.
b is a generically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant that g-depends_on one or more other entities. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [074-001])
(iff (GenericallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (exists (b t) (genericallyDependsOnAt a b t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [074-001]
generically dependent continuant
b is a generically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant that g-depends_on one or more other entities. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [074-001])
(iff (GenericallyDependentContinuant a) (and (Continuant a) (exists (b t) (genericallyDependsOnAt a b t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [074-001]
function
Function
the function of a hammer to drive in nails
the function of a heart pacemaker to regulate the beating of a heart through electricity
the function of amylase in saliva to break down starch into sugar
BFO 2 Reference: In the past, we have distinguished two varieties of function, artifactual function and biological function. These are not asserted subtypes of BFO:function however, since the same function – for example: to pump, to transport – can exist both in artifacts and in biological entities. The asserted subtypes of function that would be needed in order to yield a separate monoheirarchy are not artifactual function, biological function, etc., but rather transporting function, pumping function, etc.
A function is a disposition that exists in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up and this physical make-up is something the bearer possesses because it came into being, either through evolution (in the case of natural biological entities) or through intentional design (in the case of artifacts), in order to realize processes of a certain sort. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [064-001])
(forall (x) (if (Function x) (Disposition x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [064-001]
function
A function is a disposition that exists in virtue of the bearer’s physical make-up and this physical make-up is something the bearer possesses because it came into being, either through evolution (in the case of natural biological entities) or through intentional design (in the case of artifacts), in order to realize processes of a certain sort. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [064-001])
(forall (x) (if (Function x) (Disposition x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [064-001]
p-boundary
ProcessBoundary
the boundary between the 2nd and 3rd year of your life.
p is a process boundary =Def. p is a temporal part of a process & p has no proper temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [084-001])
Every process boundary occupies_temporal_region a zero-dimensional temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [085-002])
(forall (x) (if (ProcessBoundary x) (exists (y) (and (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion y) (occupiesTemporalRegion x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [085-002]
(iff (ProcessBoundary a) (exists (p) (and (Process p) (temporalPartOf a p) (not (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [084-001]
process boundary
p is a process boundary =Def. p is a temporal part of a process & p has no proper temporal parts. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [084-001])
Every process boundary occupies_temporal_region a zero-dimensional temporal region. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [085-002])
(forall (x) (if (ProcessBoundary x) (exists (y) (and (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion y) (occupiesTemporalRegion x y))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [085-002]
(iff (ProcessBoundary a) (exists (p) (and (Process p) (temporalPartOf a p) (not (exists (b) (properTemporalPartOf b a)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [084-001]
1d-t-region
OneDimensionalTemporalRegion
the temporal region during which a process occurs.
BFO 2 Reference: A temporal interval is a special kind of one-dimensional temporal region, namely one that is self-connected (is without gaps or breaks).
A one-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is extended. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [103-001])
(forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [103-001]
one-dimensional temporal region
A one-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is extended. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [103-001])
(forall (x) (if (OneDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [103-001]
material
MaterialEntity
a flame
a forest fire
a human being
a hurricane
a photon
a puff of smoke
a sea wave
a tornado
an aggregate of human beings.
an energy wave
an epidemic
the undetached arm of a human being
An independent continuant that is spatially extended whose identity is independent of that of other entities and can be maintained through time.
BFO 2 Reference: Material entities (continuants) can preserve their identity even while gaining and losing material parts. Continuants are contrasted with occurrents, which unfold themselves in successive temporal parts or phases [60
BFO 2 Reference: Object, Fiat Object Part and Object Aggregate are not intended to be exhaustive of Material Entity. Users are invited to propose new subcategories of Material Entity.
BFO 2 Reference: ‘Matter’ is intended to encompass both mass and energy (we will address the ontological treatment of portions of energy in a later version of BFO). A portion of matter is anything that includes elementary particles among its proper or improper parts: quarks and leptons, including electrons, as the smallest particles thus far discovered; baryons (including protons and neutrons) at a higher level of granularity; atoms and molecules at still higher levels, forming the cells, organs, organisms and other material entities studied by biologists, the portions of rock studied by geologists, the fossils studied by paleontologists, and so on.Material entities are three-dimensional entities (entities extended in three spatial dimensions), as contrasted with the processes in which they participate, which are four-dimensional entities (entities extended also along the dimension of time).According to the FMA, material entities may have immaterial entities as parts – including the entities identified below as sites; for example the interior (or ‘lumen’) of your small intestine is a part of your body. BFO 2.0 embodies a decision to follow the FMA here.
A material entity is an independent continuant that has some portion of matter as proper or improper continuant part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [019-002])
Every entity which has a material entity as continuant part is a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [020-002])
every entity of which a material entity is continuant part is also a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [021-002])
(forall (x) (if (MaterialEntity x) (IndependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [019-002]
(forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt x y t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [021-002]
(forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [020-002]
material entity
material_entity
A material entity is an independent continuant that has some portion of matter as proper or improper continuant part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [019-002])
Every entity which has a material entity as continuant part is a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [020-002])
every entity of which a material entity is continuant part is also a material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [021-002])
(forall (x) (if (MaterialEntity x) (IndependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [019-002]
(forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt x y t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [021-002]
(forall (x) (if (and (Entity x) (exists (y t) (and (MaterialEntity y) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)))) (MaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [020-002]
cf-boundary
ContinuantFiatBoundary
b is a continuant fiat boundary = Def. b is an immaterial entity that is of zero, one or two dimensions and does not include a spatial region as part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [029-001])
BFO 2 Reference: In BFO 1.1 the assumption was made that the external surface of a material entity such as a cell could be treated as if it were a boundary in the mathematical sense. The new document propounds the view that when we talk about external surfaces of material objects in this way then we are talking about something fiat. To be dealt with in a future version: fiat boundaries at different levels of granularity.More generally, the focus in discussion of boundaries in BFO 2.0 is now on fiat boundaries, which means: boundaries for which there is no assumption that they coincide with physical discontinuities. The ontology of boundaries becomes more closely allied with the ontology of regions.
BFO 2 Reference: a continuant fiat boundary is a boundary of some material entity (for example: the plane separating the Northern and Southern hemispheres; the North Pole), or it is a boundary of some immaterial entity (for example of some portion of airspace). Three basic kinds of continuant fiat boundary can be distinguished (together with various combination kinds [29
Continuant fiat boundary doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary and a one dimensional continuant fiat boundary that doesn't overlap it. The situation is analogous to temporal and spatial regions.
Every continuant fiat boundary is located at some spatial region at every time at which it exists
(iff (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ImmaterialEntity a) (exists (b) (and (or (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b)) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))) (not (exists (c t) (and (SpatialRegion c) (continuantPartOfAt c a t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [029-001]
continuant fiat boundary
b is a continuant fiat boundary = Def. b is an immaterial entity that is of zero, one or two dimensions and does not include a spatial region as part. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [029-001])
Continuant fiat boundary doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary and a one dimensional continuant fiat boundary that doesn't overlap it. The situation is analogous to temporal and spatial regions.
(iff (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ImmaterialEntity a) (exists (b) (and (or (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b)) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))) (not (exists (c t) (and (SpatialRegion c) (continuantPartOfAt c a t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [029-001]
immaterial
ImmaterialEntity
BFO 2 Reference: Immaterial entities are divided into two subgroups:boundaries and sites, which bound, or are demarcated in relation, to material entities, and which can thus change location, shape and size and as their material hosts move or change shape or size (for example: your nasal passage; the hold of a ship; the boundary of Wales (which moves with the rotation of the Earth) [38, 7, 10
immaterial entity
1d-cf-boundary
OneDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary
The Equator
all geopolitical boundaries
all lines of latitude and longitude
the line separating the outer surface of the mucosa of the lower lip from the outer surface of the skin of the chin.
the median sulcus of your tongue
a one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a continuous fiat line whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [032-001])
(iff (OneDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [032-001]
one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
a one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a continuous fiat line whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [032-001])
(iff (OneDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (OneDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [032-001]
process-profile
ProcessProfile
On a somewhat higher level of complexity are what we shall call rate process profiles, which are the targets of selective abstraction focused not on determinate quality magnitudes plotted over time, but rather on certain ratios between these magnitudes and elapsed times. A speed process profile, for example, is represented by a graph plotting against time the ratio of distance covered per unit of time. Since rates may change, and since such changes, too, may have rates of change, we have to deal here with a hierarchy of process profile universals at successive levels
One important sub-family of rate process profiles is illustrated by the beat or frequency profiles of cyclical processes, illustrated by the 60 beats per minute beating process of John’s heart, or the 120 beats per minute drumming process involved in one of John’s performances in a rock band, and so on. Each such process includes what we shall call a beat process profile instance as part, a subtype of rate process profile in which the salient ratio is not distance covered but rather number of beat cycles per unit of time. Each beat process profile instance instantiates the determinable universal beat process profile. But it also instantiates multiple more specialized universals at lower levels of generality, selected from rate process profilebeat process profileregular beat process profile3 bpm beat process profile4 bpm beat process profileirregular beat process profileincreasing beat process profileand so on.In the case of a regular beat process profile, a rate can be assigned in the simplest possible fashion by dividing the number of cycles by the length of the temporal region occupied by the beating process profile as a whole. Irregular process profiles of this sort, for example as identified in the clinic, or in the readings on an aircraft instrument panel, are often of diagnostic significance.
The simplest type of process profiles are what we shall call ‘quality process profiles’, which are the process profiles which serve as the foci of the sort of selective abstraction that is involved when measurements are made of changes in single qualities, as illustrated, for example, by process profiles of mass, temperature, aortic pressure, and so on.
b is a process_profile =Def. there is some process c such that b process_profile_of c (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [093-002])
b process_profile_of c holds when b proper_occurrent_part_of c& there is some proper_occurrent_part d of c which has no parts in common with b & is mutually dependent on b& is such that b, c and d occupy the same temporal region (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [094-005])
(forall (x y) (if (processProfileOf x y) (and (properContinuantPartOf x y) (exists (z t) (and (properOccurrentPartOf z y) (TemporalRegion t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion y t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion z t) (not (exists (w) (and (occurrentPartOf w x) (occurrentPartOf w z))))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [094-005]
(iff (ProcessProfile a) (exists (b) (and (Process b) (processProfileOf a b)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [093-002]
process profile
b is a process_profile =Def. there is some process c such that b process_profile_of c (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [093-002])
b process_profile_of c holds when b proper_occurrent_part_of c& there is some proper_occurrent_part d of c which has no parts in common with b & is mutually dependent on b& is such that b, c and d occupy the same temporal region (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [094-005])
(forall (x y) (if (processProfileOf x y) (and (properContinuantPartOf x y) (exists (z t) (and (properOccurrentPartOf z y) (TemporalRegion t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion x t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion y t) (occupiesSpatioTemporalRegion z t) (not (exists (w) (and (occurrentPartOf w x) (occurrentPartOf w z))))))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [094-005]
(iff (ProcessProfile a) (exists (b) (and (Process b) (processProfileOf a b)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [093-002]
r-quality
RelationalQuality
John’s role of husband to Mary is dependent on Mary’s role of wife to John, and both are dependent on the object aggregate comprising John and Mary as member parts joined together through the relational quality of being married.
a marriage bond, an instance of requited love, an obligation between one person and another.
b is a relational quality = Def. for some independent continuants c, d and for some time t: b quality_of c at t & b quality_of d at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [057-001])
(iff (RelationalQuality a) (exists (b c t) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (IndependentContinuant c) (qualityOfAt a b t) (qualityOfAt a c t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [057-001]
relational quality
b is a relational quality = Def. for some independent continuants c, d and for some time t: b quality_of c at t & b quality_of d at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [057-001])
(iff (RelationalQuality a) (exists (b c t) (and (IndependentContinuant b) (IndependentContinuant c) (qualityOfAt a b t) (qualityOfAt a c t)))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [057-001]
2d-cf-boundary
TwoDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary
a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary (surface) is a self-connected fiat surface whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [033-001])
(iff (TwoDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [033-001]
two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary (surface) is a self-connected fiat surface whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [033-001])
(iff (TwoDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (TwoDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [033-001]
0d-cf-boundary
ZeroDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary
the geographic North Pole
the point of origin of some spatial coordinate system.
the quadripoint where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet
zero dimension continuant fiat boundaries are not spatial points. Considering the example 'the quadripoint where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet' : There are many frames in which that point is zooming through many points in space. Whereas, no matter what the frame, the quadripoint is always in the same relation to the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
a zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a fiat point whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [031-001])
(iff (ZeroDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [031-001]
zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
zero dimension continuant fiat boundaries are not spatial points. Considering the example 'the quadripoint where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet' : There are many frames in which that point is zooming through many points in space. Whereas, no matter what the frame, the quadripoint is always in the same relation to the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
requested by Melanie Courtot
a zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary is a fiat point whose location is defined in relation to some material entity. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [031-001])
(iff (ZeroDimensionalContinuantFiatBoundary a) (and (ContinuantFiatBoundary a) (exists (b) (and (ZeroDimensionalSpatialRegion b) (forall (t) (locatedInAt a b t)))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [031-001]
0d-t-region
ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion
a temporal region that is occupied by a process boundary
right now
the moment at which a child is born
the moment at which a finger is detached in an industrial accident
the moment of death.
temporal instant.
A zero-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is without extent. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [102-001])
(forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [102-001]
zero-dimensional temporal region
A zero-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is without extent. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [102-001])
(forall (x) (if (ZeroDimensionalTemporalRegion x) (TemporalRegion x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [102-001]
history
History
A history is a process that is the sum of the totality of processes taking place in the spatiotemporal region occupied by a material entity or site, including processes on the surface of the entity or within the cavities to which it serves as host. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [138-001])
history
A history is a process that is the sum of the totality of processes taking place in the spatiotemporal region occupied by a material entity or site, including processes on the surface of the entity or within the cavities to which it serves as host. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [138-001])
molecular entity
Any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, complex, conformer etc., identifiable as a separately distinguishable entity.
We are assuming that every molecular entity has to be completely connected by chemical bonds. This excludes protein complexes, which are comprised of minimally two separate molecular entities. We will follow up with Chebi to ensure this is their understanding as well
molecular entity
chebi_ontology
entidad molecular
entidades moleculares
entite moleculaire
molecular entities
molekulare Entitaet
CHEBI:23367
molecular entity
A chemical entity is a physical entity of interest in chemistry including molecular entities, parts thereof, and chemical substances.
chemical entity
chebi_ontology
CHEBI:24431
chemical entity
An identifier(s) (ID), if any, other than the organization's Unique Protocol Identification Number or the NCT number that is assigned to the clinical study. This includes any unique clinical study identifiers assigned by other publicly available clinical trial registries. If the clinical study is funded in whole or in part by a U.S. Federal Government agency, the complete grant or contract number must be submitted as a Secondary ID.
Other identifiers besides the Trial Identifying Number allocated by the Primary Registry, if any.
secondary identifier
An identifier(s) (ID), if any, other than the organization's Unique Protocol Identification Number or the NCT number that is assigned to the clinical study. This includes any unique clinical study identifiers assigned by other publicly available clinical trial registries. If the clinical study is funded in whole or in part by a U.S. Federal Government agency, the complete grant or contract number must be submitted as a Secondary ID.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Other identifiers besides the Trial Identifying Number allocated by the Primary Registry, if any.
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Australian New Zealand clinical trials registry (ANZCTR). The format for the registry number is “ACTRN” followed by a 14-digit number, e.g., ACTRN12620000457943.
ANZCTR identifier
Australian New Zealand clinical trials registry identifier
http://www.anzctr.org.au/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
ANZCTR
Australian New Zealand clinical trials registry
http://www.anzctr.org.au/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Peruvian clinical trial registry (REPEC). The format for the registry number is “PER-” followed by a 3-digit number, followed by a hyphen, followed by a 2-digit number e.g., PER-010-20.
REPEC identifier
Peruvian clinical trial registry identifier
https://ensayosclinicos-repec.ins.gob.pe/en/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The party or parties involved in the clinical trial who are prevented from having knowledge of the interventions assigned to individual participants.
blinding
masking
masking design
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
The party or parties involved in the clinical trial who are prevented from having knowledge of the interventions assigned to individual participants.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Participants are expressly assigned to intervention groups through a non-random method, such as physician choice
non-randomized
nonrandomized
non-random allocation
Participants are expressly assigned to intervention groups through a non-random method, such as physician choice
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A study record that includes the summary results posted in the ClinicalTrials.gov results database. Summary results information includes participant flow, baseline characteristics, outcome measures, and adverse events (including serious adverse events).
summary results
study summary result
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A study record that includes the summary results posted in the ClinicalTrials.gov results database. Summary results information includes participant flow, baseline characteristics, outcome measures, and adverse events (including serious adverse events).
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
A description of each secondary outcome measure (or for observational studies, specific secondary measurement[s] or observation[s] used to describe patterns of diseases or traits or associations with exposures, risk factors or treatment).
Each secondary outcome measure information includes title, description and time frame.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
key secondary outcome
secondary outcome measure information
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
key secondary outcome
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
The Iranian registry of clinical trials is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
IRCT
Iranian registry of clinical trials
http://www.irct.ir/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
Any other measurements, excluding post-hoc measures, that will be used to evaluate the intervention(s) or, for observational studies, that are a focus of the study.
Each primary outcome measure information includes title, description and time frame.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
other pre-specified outcome measures
other outcome measure information
The Indian clinical trials registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
CTRI
clinical trials registry - India
Indian clinical trials registry
http://ctri.nic.in/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The Netherlands national trial register is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
NTR
The Netherlands national trial register
http://www.trialregister.nl/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Iranian registry of clinical trials (IRCT). The format for the registry number is “IRCT” followed by a 14-digit number, one letter and again one or two numbers, e.g., IRCT20100228003449N29.
IRCT identifier
Iranian registry of clinical trials identifier
http://www.irct.ir/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the German clinical trials register (DRKS). The format for the registry number is “DRKS” followed by a 8-digit number, e.g., DRKS00000494.
DRKS identifier
German clinical trials register identifier
https://www.drks.de/drks_web/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The Cuban public registry of clinical trials is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
RPCEC
Cuban public registry of clinical trials
http://registroclinico.sld.cu/en/home
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
For clinical trials, a planned measurement described in the protocol that is used to determine the effect of an intervention/treatment on participants. For observational studies, a measurement or observation that is used to describe patterns of diseases or traits, or associations with exposures, risk factors, or treatment. Types of outcome measures include primary outcome measure and secondary outcome measure.
outcome measure
outcome measurement
clinical trial outcome measurement
For clinical trials, a planned measurement described in the protocol that is used to determine the effect of an intervention/treatment on participants. For observational studies, a measurement or observation that is used to describe patterns of diseases or traits, or associations with exposures, risk factors, or treatment. Types of outcome measures include primary outcome measure and secondary outcome measure.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
The Pan African clinical trial registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
PACTR
Pan African clinical trial registry
http://www.pactr.org/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the The Netherlands national trial register (NTR). The format for the registry number is “NTR” followed by a 1 to 4-digit number, e.g., NL8498.
NTR identifier
The Netherlands national trial register identifier
https://www.trialregister.nl/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The JAPIC (Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center) clinical trials registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
JapicCTI
JAPIC clinical trials registry
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
https://www.japic.or.jp/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Pan African clinical trial register. The format for the registry number is “KCT” followed by a 15-digit number, e.g., PACTR202004893013257.
PACTR identifier
Pan African clinical trial registry identifier
https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Chinese clinical trials register (ChiCTR). The format for the registry number is “ChiCTR” followed by a 10-digit number, e.g., ChiCTR2000031589.
ChiCTR identifier
Chinese Clinical Trial Register number
Chinese clinical trail registry identifier
http://www.chictr.org.cn/enIndex.aspx
The Lebanese clinical trials registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
LBCTR
Lebanese clinical trials registry
http://lbctr.emro.who.int/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
German clinical trials register is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
DRKS
German clinical trials register
http://www.germanctr.de/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The JMACCT (Japan Medical Association, Center for Clinical Trials) clinical trials registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
JMACCT
JMACCT clinical trials registry
https://dbcentre3.jmacct.med.or.jp/jmactr/Default_Eng.aspx
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
adult (18-64)
age_between_18_and_64
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
The actual total number of participants that are enrolled in a clinical study
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
enrollment
sample size
number of participants
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
enrollment
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
sample size
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (ReBEC). The format for the ReBEC registry number is “RBR-” followed by 6 characters, e.g., RBR-4hb9qs.
Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials identifier
ReBEC identifier
Brazilian clinical trial registry identifier
http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/
Clinical trial phase that is a combination of phases 2 and 3.
Phase 2/3
Phase 2/Phase 3
Phase I/II
clinical trial phase 2/3
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
data item ....
study result
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates whether people who do not have the condition/disease being studied can participate in that clinical study.
Indication that participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms, under study in the clinical study are permitted to participate in the clinical study.
accepts healthy volunteers
healthy volunteer criterion
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates whether people who do not have the condition/disease being studied can participate in that clinical study.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
Indication that participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms, under study in the clinical study are permitted to participate in the clinical study.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
child (birth-17)
age_between_birth_and_17_years
A description of each primary outcome measure (or for observational studies, specific key measurement[s] or observation[s] used to describe patterns of diseases or traits or associations with exposures, risk factors or treatment).
Each primary outcome measure information includes title, description and time frame.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
primary end point
primary outcome(s)
primary outcome measure information
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
primary end point
https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/doc/EU_Clinical_Trials_Register_Glossary.pdf
primary outcome(s)
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
The EU clinical trials register is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
EU-CTR
EU clinical trials register
https://eudract.ema.europa.eu/
https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The UMIN (University Hospital Medical Information Network Center) clinical trials registry is a Japanese primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
UMIN CTR
UMIN clinical trials registry
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
https://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
older adult (65+)
age_older_than_64
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
Data generated from measurement of experimental variables in a study, or for observational studies, from descriptions of patterns of diseases or traits or associations with exposures, risk factors or treatment.
outcome measure result
Indicate whether a clinical study has been reviewed and approved by at least one human subjects protection review board or such review is not required per applicable law (for example, 21 CFR Part 56, 45 CFR Part 46, or other applicable regulation).
human subjects protection review board status
Indicate whether a clinical study has been reviewed and approved by at least one human subjects protection review board or such review is not required per applicable law (for example, 21 CFR Part 56, 45 CFR Part 46, or other applicable regulation).
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of clinical trials.
The Korean clinical trials registry (Clinical Research Information Service (CRiS), Republic of Korea) is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
CRiS
Clinical Research Information Service, Republic of Korea
Korean clinical trials registry
http://cris.nih.go.kr/cris/en/use_guide/cris_introduce.jsp
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
Trials without phases (for example, studies of devices or behavioral interventions).
N/A
phase not applicable
Trials without phases (for example, studies of devices or behavioral interventions).
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Look back using observations collected predominantly prior to subject selection and enrollment
retrospective study design
Look back using observations collected predominantly prior to subject selection and enrollment
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the international standard randomised controlled trial register (ISRCT). The format for the registry number is “ISRCTN” followed by a 8-digit number, e.g., ISRCTN14966673.
ISRCTN
International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number
International standard randomised controlled trial register identifier
http://www.isrctn.com/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
Clinical trial phase that is a combination of phases 1 and 2.
Phase 1/2
Phase 1/Phase 2
Phase I/II
clinical trial phase 1/2
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Look forward using periodic observations collected predominantly following subject enrollment
prospective study design
Look forward using periodic observations collected predominantly following subject enrollment
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Thai clinical trials registry (TCTR). The format for the registry number is “TCTR” followed by a 11-digit number, e.g., TCTR20200405001
TCTR identifier
Thai clinical trials registry identifier
http://www.clinicaltrials.in.th/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The Chinese clinical trial registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
ChiCTR
Chinese clinical trial registry
http://www.chictr.org.cn/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The Thai clinical trials registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
TCTR
Thai clinical trials registry
http://www.clinicaltrials.in.th/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A description of the outcome measure in an interventional study or for observational studies, specific key measurement[s] or observation[s] used to describe patterns of diseases or traits or associations with exposures, risk factors or treatment.
outcome specification
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Indian clinical trial register. The format for the registry number is “CRTI/” followed by a 4-digit number, followed by a slash, followed a 2-digit number, followed by a slash, followed a 6-digit number, e.g., CTRI/2020/03/024402.
CRTI identifier
Clinical Trials Registry - India identifier
Indian clinical trial registry identifier
http://ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/login.php
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The Brazilian clinical trials registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
ReBec
Brazilian clinical trials registry
http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Japan Registry of Clinical Trials (jRCT). The format for the registry number is “jRCTs” followed by a 9-digit number, e.g., JPRN-jRCTs031190227
Japan registry of clinical trials identifier
jRCT clinical trial identifier
https://jrct.niph.go.jp/
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Cuban public registry of clinical trials (RPCEC). The format for the registry number is “RPCEC” followed by a 8-digit number, e.g., RPCEC00000306.
RPCEC identifier
Cuban public registry of clinical trials identifier
http://registroclinico.sld.cu/en/home
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Lebanese clinical trials registry (LBCTR). The format for the registry number is “LBCTR” followed by a 10-digit number, e.g., LBCTR2020043459.
Lebanese clinical trials registry identifier
LBCTR identifier
http://lbctr.emro.who.int/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
A primary registry is clinical trial registry in the WHO registry network that meet specific criteria for content, quality and validity, accessibility, unique identification, technical capacity and administration. Primary registries also meet the requirements of the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICMJE).
primary registry
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The Peruvian clinical trial registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
REPEC
Peruvian clinical trial registry
https://ensayosclinicos-repec.ins.gob.pe/en/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
The Sri Lanka clinical trials registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
SLCTR
Sri Lanka clinical trials registry
http://www.slctr.lk/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry for clinical trials.
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrial.gov registry
https://clinicaltrials.gov/
A clinical trials registry organization is an organization that enables the registration and documentation of clinical trials.
clinical trials registry
clinical trials registry organization
clinical trial enrollment
clinical trial participant
healthy enrollee
enrolled patient
placebo medical intervention
outcome measurement datum
primary outcome measurement datum
secondary outcome measurement datum
investigational molecular entity
drug clinical trial
clinical trial sponsor role
procedure clinical trIal
a study design in which neither the subjects nor the investigators are permitted to know which subject is receiving which treatment
double-blind
double-blinded
double blinded design
a study design in which only the investigators are permitted to know which subject is receiving which treatment
double blind
double blinded
single blinded design
a study design in which the subjects and the investigators are permitted to know which subject is receiving which treatment
open blind
open label
open blinded design
Groups of participants are assigned to receive interventions based on prior milestones being reached in the study, such as in some dose escalation and adaptive design studies
sequential design
Groups of participants are assigned to receive interventions based on prior milestones being reached in the study, such as in some dose escalation and adaptive design studies
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
study design with a single group (arm)
sinlge arm
single arm design
primary outcome measurement
secondary outcome measurement
The main objective of the intervention(s) being evaluated by the clinical trial.
primary purpose of clinical trial
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
clinical trial primary purpose specification
The quality of a clinical trial that studies a drug or biological product. The phase is based on the study's objective, the number of participants, and other characteristics. According to USA FDA, there are five phases: Early Phase 1 (formerly listed as Phase 0), Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, and Phase 4.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
clinical trial stage
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/help/glossary/phase
phase
clinical trial phase
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A clinical trial phase that is designed to use an investigational agent that is available only in very limited quantities and which has never previously given to humans or for which there is extremely limited human experience. Phase 0 clinical trials are intended to enable researchers to understand the path of the drug in the body and its efficacy. Adverse event reporting in Phase 0 trials is expedited. [def-source: NCI]
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
Early Phase 1
Pre-Clinical Phase
clinical trial phase 0
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C54721
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial
C1882358
C54721
clinical trial early phase 1
A clinical trial phase that represents the first-in-man trial, which tests within a small group of people (typically 20-80) to evaluate safety, determine safe dosage ranges, and begin to identify side effects. A drug's side effects could be subtle or long term, or may only happen with a few people, so phase 1 trials are not expected to identify all side effects.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
Phase 1
Phase I
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15600
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial
C0920321
C15600
clinical trial phase 1
A clinical trial phase that is designed to study a biomedical or behavioral intervention in a larger group of people (several hundred), to evaluate the drug's effectiveness for a particular indication in patients with the disease or condition under study, and to determine the common short-term side effects and risks associated with the intervention. [def-source: NCI]
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
Phase II
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15601
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial
C0282460
C15601
clinical trial phase 2
A clinical trial phase that is designed to investigate the efficacy of the biomedical or behavioral intervention in large groups of human subjects (from several hundred to several thousand), to confirm efficacy, to monitor adverse reactions to the new medication or treatment regimen with respect to long-term use and by comparing the intervention to other standard or experimental interventions as well as to a placebo. [def-source: NCI]
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
Phase III
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15602
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial
C0282461
C15602
clinical trial phase 3
A clinical trial phase that is designed for a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of a drug for a given indication. Often they are designed to study side effects that may have become apparent after the phase III study was completed. [def-source: NCI]
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
Phase IV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial
C0282462
C15603
clinical trial phase 4
A clinical trial that is at Early Phase 1 or Phase 0
A clinical trial that is at an Early Phase i or Phase 0, which is designed to use an investigational agent that is available only in very limited quantities and which has never previously given to humans or for which there is extremely limited human experience. Phase 0 clinical trials are intended to enable researchers to understand the path of the drug in the body and its efficacy. Adverse event reporting in Phase 0 trials is expedited. [def-source: NCI]
Exploratory trials, involving very limited human exposure, with no therapeutic or diagnostic intent (e.g., screening studies, microdose studies). (Formerly listed as "Phase 0")
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
Phase 0 clinical trial
Phase 0 trial
Pre-Clinical Trial
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C54721
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial
Early Phase 1 clinical trial
Exploratory trials, involving very limited human exposure, with no therapeutic or diagnostic intent (e.g., screening studies, microdose studies). (Formerly listed as "Phase 0")
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
EudraCT Number: 2007-002422-29
Qingliang Leon Li, Asiyah Yu Lin, Oliver He
EudraCT identifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EudraCT
https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search
https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search?query=eudract
European clinical trial registry identifier
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/primary/en/
Qingliang Leon Li, Asiyah Yu Lin, Oliver He
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/NIPH%20Clinical%20Trials%20Search%20of%20Japan
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
Japan clinical trial identifier
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/jprn2/en/
Qingliang Leon Li, Asiyah Yu Lin, Oliver He
JapicCTI
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
JAPIC clinical trial identifier
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in JMACCT. The format for the JMACCT registry number is “JMA-IIA” followed by a 5-digit number, e.g., JMA-IIA00391.
Qingliang Leon Li, Asiyah Yu Lin, Oliver He
JMACCT
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
JMACCT clinical trial identifier
A Japan clinical trial identifier provided by the University Hospital Medical Information Network Center (UMIN-CTR)
Qingliang Leon Li, Asiyah Yu Lin, Oliver He
UMIN
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
UMIN-CTR clinical trial identifier
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the ClinicalTrials.gov. The format for the ClinicalTrials.gov registry number is “NCT” followed by an 8-digit number, e.g.: NCT00000419.
Qingliang Leon Li, Asiyah Yu Lin, Oliver He
NCT identifier
NCT number
National Clinical Trial identifier
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-site/link-to
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/policy/clin_trials.html
USA National Clinical Trial identifier
The date on which a study starts
study start date
The date that the final participant was examined or received an intervention for the purposes of final collection of data for the primary outcome, whether the clinical study concluded according to the pre-specified protocol or was terminated. In the case of clinical studies with more than one primary outcome measure with different completion dates, this term refers to the date on which data collection is completed for all of the primary outcomes.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
primary completion
clinical trial primary completion date
The date the final participant was examined or received an intervention for purposes of final collection of data for the primary and secondary outcome measures and adverse events (for example, last participant’s last visit), whether the clinical study concluded according to the pre-specified protocol or was terminated.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
completion date
clinical trial study completion date
completion date
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
A textual entity that is the title of a clinical trial
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
title of clinical trial
A title of clinical trial that is meant for lay people understanding
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
brief title
lay title
public title
lay title of clinical trial
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A title of clinical trial that is recorded as official
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
full title
scientific title
official title of clinical trial
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
a clinical trial is a medical interventional study where participants are assigned prospectively to an intervention or interventions according to a protocol to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the intervention(s) on biomedical or other health related outcomes. The Interventions include but are not restricted to drugs, cells and other biological products, surgical procedures, radiologic procedures, devices, behavioral treatments, process-of-care changes, preventive care, etc.
Oliver He, Asiyah Yu Lin, Qingliang Li
interventional trial
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/search/map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
https://www.who.int/ictrp/en/
clinical trial
a material entity (1) containing at least one scattered molecular aggregate as part that is the bearer of an active ingredient role and (2) that is itself the bearer of a clinical drug role
William Hogan
William Hogan
drug product
epidemiological study
A study of the populations and demographic of the avian flu.
A human study of diseases in populations of humans or other animals, specifically how, when and where they occur. Epidemiological studies can never prove causation, epidemiological evidence can only show that this risk factor is correlated with a higher incidence of disease in the population exposed to that risk factor. The higher the correlation the more certain the association, but it cannot prove the causation.
PERSON: Karen Corday
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/TIB/epidemiology.html
epidemiological study
A blood pressure monitor is a medical device.
An instrument used in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions or for use in the care, treatment, or prevention of disease that does not achieve any of its primary intended purposes by chemical action or by being metabolized.
PERSON: Nicole Vasilevsky
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/medical+device
medical device
A preliminary study to determine the practicability of a proposed health program or procedure or of a larger study and to appraise the factors that may influence its practicability. A feasibility study aims to discover those things which may affect successful study conduct on a larger scale.
PERSON: Melanie Wilson
Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th edition.
feasibility study
An organization dedicated to the collection, storage and dissemination of a set of scientific or clinical data.
PERSON: Nicole Vasilevsky
PERSON: Scott Hoffmann
registry
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
objective specification
In the protocol of a ChIP assay the objective specification says to identify protein and DNA interaction.
A directive information entity that describes an intended process endpoint. When part of a plan specification the concretization is realized in a planned process in which the bearer tries to effect the world so that the process endpoint is achieved.
2009-03-16: original definition when imported from OBI read: "objective is an non realizable information entity which can serve as that proper part of a plan towards which the realization of the plan is directed."
2014-03-31: In the example of usage ("In the protocol of a ChIP assay the objective specification says to identify protein and DNA interaction") there is a protocol which is the ChIP assay protocol. In addition to being concretized on paper, the protocol can be concretized as a realizable entity, such as a plan that inheres in a person. The objective specification is the part that says that some protein and DNA interactions are identified. This is a specification of a process endpoint: the boundary in the process before which they are not identified and after which they are. During the realization of the plan, the goal is to get to the point of having the interactions, and participants in the realization of the plan try to do that.
Answers the question, why did you do this experiment?
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Barry Smith
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
PERSON: Jennifer Fostel
goal specification
OBI Plan and Planned Process/Roles Branch
OBI_0000217
objective specification
Pour the contents of flask 1 into flask 2
A directive information entity that describes an action the bearer will take.
Alan Ruttenberg
OBI Plan and Planned Process branch
action specification
data item
Data items include counts of things, analyte concentrations, and statistical summaries.
a data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements.
2/2/2009 Alan and Bjoern discussing FACS run output data. This is a data item because it is about the cell population. Each element records an event and is typically further composed a set of measurment data items that record the fluorescent intensity stimulated by one of the lasers.
2009-03-16: data item deliberatly ambiguous: we merged data set and datum to be one entity, not knowing how to define singular versus plural. So data item is more general than datum.
2009-03-16: removed datum as alternative term as datum specifically refers to singular form, and is thus not an exact synonym.
2014-03-31: See discussion at http://odontomachus.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/aboutness-objects-propositions/
JAR: datum -- well, this will be very tricky to define, but maybe some
information-like stuff that might be put into a computer and that is
meant, by someone, to denote and/or to be interpreted by some
process... I would include lists, tables, sentences... I think I might
defer to Barry, or to Brian Cantwell Smith
JAR: A data item is an approximately justified approximately true approximate belief
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert
PERSON: Jonathan Rees
data
data item
information content entity
Examples of information content entites include journal articles, data, graphical layouts, and graphs.
A generically dependent continuant that is about some thing.
An information content entity is an entity that is generically dependent on some artifact and stands in relation of aboutness to some entity
2014-03-10: The use of "thing" is intended to be general enough to include universals and configurations (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/information-ontology/GBxvYZCk1oc/-L6B5fSBBTQJ).
information_content_entity 'is_encoded_in' some digital_entity in obi before split (040907). information_content_entity 'is_encoded_in' some physical_document in obi before split (040907).
Previous. An information content entity is a non-realizable information entity that 'is encoded in' some digital or physical entity.
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert
OBI_0000142
information content entity
information content entity
An information content entity whose concretizations indicate to their bearer how to realize them in a process.
2009-03-16: provenance: a term realizable information entity was proposed for OBI (OBI_0000337) , edited by the PlanAndPlannedProcess branch. Original definition was "is the specification of a process that can be concretized and realized by an actor" with alternative term "instruction".It has been subsequently moved to IAO where the objective for which the original term was defined was satisfied with the definitionof this, different, term.
2013-05-30 Alan Ruttenberg: What differentiates a directive information entity from an information concretization is that it can have concretizations that are either qualities or realizable entities. The concretizations that are realizable entities are created when an individual chooses to take up the direction, i.e. has the intention to (try to) realize it.
8/6/2009 Alan Ruttenberg: Changed label from "information entity about a realizable" after discussions at ICBO
Werner pushed back on calling it realizable information entity as it isn't realizable. However this name isn't right either. An example would be a recipe. The realizable entity would be a plan, but the information entity isn't about the plan, it, once concretized, *is* the plan. -Alan
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
directive information entity
curation status specification
The curation status of the term. The allowed values come from an enumerated list of predefined terms. See the specification of these instances for more detailed definitions of each enumerated value.
Better to represent curation as a process with parts and then relate labels to that process (in IAO meeting)
PERSON:Bill Bug
GROUP:OBI:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi>
OBI_0000266
curation status specification
report
Examples of reports are gene lists and investigation reports. These are not published (journal) articles but may be included in a journal article.
a document assembled by an author for the purpose of providing information for the audience. A report is the output of a documenting process and has the objective to be consumed by a specific audience. Topic of the report is on something that has completed. A report is not a single figure. Examples of reports are journal article, patent application, grant progress report, case report (not patient record)
2009-03-16: comment from Darren Natale: I am slightly uneasy with the sentence "Topic of the report is on
something that has completed." Should it be restricted to those things
that are completed? For example, a progress report is (usually) about
something that definitely has *not* been completed, or may include
(only) projections. I think the definition would not suffer if the
whole sentence is deleted.
2009-03-16: this was report of results with definition: A report is a narrative object that is a formal statement of the results of an investigation, or of any matter on which definite information is required, made by some person or body instructed or required to do so.
2009-03-16: work has been done on this term during during the OBI workshop winter 2009 and the current definition was considered acceptable for use in OBI. If there is a need to modify this definition please notify OBI.
2009-08-10 Alan Ruttenberg: Larry Hunter suggests that this be obsoleted and replaced by 'document'. Alan restored as there are OBI dependencies and this merits further discussion
disagreement about where reports go. alan: only some gene lists are reports. Is a report all the content of some document? The example of usage suggests that a report may be part of some article. Term needs clarification
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Melanie Courtot
PERSON:Chris Stoeckert
GROUP: OBI
OBI_0000099
report
data about an ontology part is a data item about a part of an ontology, for example a term
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
data about an ontology part
plan specification
PMID: 18323827.Nat Med. 2008 Mar;14(3):226.New plan proposed to help resolve conflicting medical advice.
A directive information entity with action specifications and objective specifications as parts that, when concretized, is realized in a process in which the bearer tries to achieve the objectives by taking the actions specified.
2009-03-16: provenance: a term a plan was proposed for OBI (OBI_0000344) , edited by the PlanAndPlannedProcess branch. Original definition was " a plan is a specification of a process that is realized by an actor to achieve the objective specified as part of the plan". It has been subsequently moved to IAO where the objective for which the original term was defined was satisfied with the definitionof this, different, term.
2014-03-31: A plan specification can have other parts, such as conditional specifications.
Alternative previous definition: a plan is a set of instructions that specify how an objective should be achieved
Alan Ruttenberg
OBI Plan and Planned Process branch
OBI_0000344
2/3/2009 Comment from OBI review.
Action specification not well enough specified.
Conditional specification not well enough specified.
Question whether all plan specifications have objective specifications.
Request that IAO either clarify these or change definitions not to use them
plan specification
textual entity
Words, sentences, paragraphs, and the written (non-figure) parts of publications are all textual entities
A textual entity is a part of a manifestation (FRBR sense), a generically dependent continuant whose concretizations are patterns of glyphs intended to be interpreted as words, formulas, etc.
AR, (IAO call 2009-09-01): a document as a whole is not typically a textual entity, because it has pictures in it - rather there are parts of it that are textual entities. Examples: The title, paragraph 2 sentence 7, etc.
MC, 2009-09-14 (following IAO call 2009-09-01): textual entities live at the FRBR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records) manifestation level. Everything is significant: line break, pdf and html versions of same document are different textual entities.
PERSON: Lawrence Hunter
text
textual entity
document
A journal article, patent application, laboratory notebook, or a book
A collection of information content entities intended to be understood together as a whole
PERSON: Lawrence Hunter
document
A textual entity that is used as directive to deliver something to a person, or organization
2010-05-24 Alan Ruttenberg. Use label for the string representation. See issue https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/59
postal address
email address
Alan Ruttenberg 1/3/2012 - Provisional id, see issue at https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/130&thanks=130&ts=1325636583
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
Person:Chris Stoeckart
email address
The sentence "The article has Pubmed ID 12345." contains a CRID that has two parts: one part is the CRID symbol, which is '12345'; the other part denotes the CRID registry, which is Pubmed.
An information content entity that consists of a CRID symbol and additional information about the CRID registry to which it belongs.
2014-05-05: In defining this term we take no position on what the CRID denotes. In particular do not assume it denotes a *record* in the CRID registry (since the registry might not have 'records').
Alan, IAO call 20101124: potentially the CRID denotes the instance it was associated with during creation.
Note, IAO call 20101124: URIs are not always CRID, as not centrally registered. We acknowledge that CRID is a subset of a larger identifier class, but this subset fulfills our current needs. OBI PURLs are CRID as they are registered with OCLC. UPCs (Universal Product Codes from AC Nielsen)are not CRID as they are not centrally registered.
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Bill Hogan
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
PERSON: Melanie Courtot
CRID
Original proposal from Bjoern, discussions at IAO calls
Primary Registry and Trial Identifying Number
centrally registered identifier
Primary Registry and Trial Identifying Number
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
Home institution of the contact person.
value-type:xsd:string
MS
MS:1000590
contact affiliation
GC_ID:1
ncbi_taxonomy
all
root
GC_ID:1
ncbi_taxonomy
biota
cellular organisms
GC_ID:1
PMID:23020233
PMID:30257078
eucaryotes
eukaryotes
ncbi_taxonomy
Eucarya
Eucaryotae
Eukarya
Eukaryotae
eukaryotes
Eukaryota
GC_ID:1
mammals
ncbi_taxonomy
mammals
Mammalia
GC_ID:1
Vertebrata
vertebrates
ncbi_taxonomy
vertebrates
Vertebrata <vertebrates>
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
human
human being
man
person
GC_ID:1
human
man
ncbi_taxonomy
Home sapiens
Homo sampiens
Homo sapeins
Homo sapian
Homo sapians
Homo sapien
Homo sapience
Homo sapiense
Homo sapients
Homo sapines
Homo spaiens
Homo spiens
Humo sapiens
humans
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Records containing any interim or final results, as well as clinical and statistical descriptions, presentations, analyses and interpretations of any therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic agent used in human subjects in a clinical trial.
C115575
Intellectual Product
Clinical Trial Final Report
C3889645
CDISC-GLOSS
CareLex
A written description of a trial/study of any therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic agent conducted in human subjects, in which the clinical and statistical description, presentations, and analyses are fully integrated into a single report. [ICH E3]
Subcategory name for the eTMF domain used to classify clinical study report documents.
CTrial Fin Rept Subcat
Central Trial Final Reports Subcategory
Clinical Trial Final Report
Reports
final report
Clinical Trial Final Report
An observational study that is also considered to be a Patient Registry. This type of study should only be registered once in the Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS), by the sponsor responsible for the primary data collection and analysis.
Observational studies which include an organized system that uses observational methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) prospectively for a population defined by a particular disorder/disease, condition (including susceptibility to a disorder), or exposure (including products, health care services, and/or procedures) and that serves a predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purpose. Patient registries may be single purpose or on-going data collection programs that address one or more questions. (AHRQ)
C129000
Research Activity
Patient Registry Study
C0920631
CDISC
Observational studies which include an organized system that uses observational methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) prospectively for a population defined by a particular disorder/disease, condition (including susceptibility to a disorder), or exposure (including products, health care services, and/or procedures) and that serves a predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purpose. Patient registries may be single purpose or on-going data collection programs that address one or more questions. (AHRQ)
PATIENT REGISTRY
Patient Registry Study
Patient Registry Study
An observational study that is also considered to be a Patient Registry. This type of study should only be registered once in the Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS), by the sponsor responsible for the primary data collection and analysis.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
An intervention of a device product is being evaluated to determine the feasibility of the product or to test a prototype device and not health outcomes. Such studies are conducted to confirm the design and operating specifications of a device before beginning a full clinical trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov)
C139174
Research Activity
Device Feasibility Study
CL526612
CDISC
An intervention of a device product is being evaluated to determine the feasibility of the product or to test a prototype device and not health outcomes. Such studies are conducted to confirm the design and operating specifications of a device before beginning a full clinical trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov)
DEVICE FEASIBILITY
Device Feasibility
Device Feasibility Study
Device Feasibility Study
The nature of the investigation or the investigational use for which clinical study is being done.
C142175
Research Activity
Study Type
CL540168
CDISC
Describes the role the study plays in determining the interventions a subject receives.
STYPE
Study Type
Study Type
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
Participants are assigned to intervention groups by chance
The process of resource distribution that is done by chance.
C142660
Activity
Random Allocation
CL540611
CDISC-GLOSS
Assignment of subjects to treatment (or control) groups in an unpredictable way. NOTE: in a blinded study, assignment sequences are concealed, but available for disclosure in the event a subject has an adverse experience.
Random Allocation
random allocation
randomized
Random Allocation
Participants are assigned to intervention groups by chance
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
The main objective of the intervention(s) being evaluated by the clinical trial.
The principal reason or intention for the execution of an interventional or non-interventional clinical study.
C147141
Idea or Concept
Study Primary Purpose
CL545057
CDISC
The principal reason or intention for the execution of an interventional or non-interventional clinical study. (NCI)
Study Primary Purpose
Study Primary Purpose
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
The main objective of the intervention(s) being evaluated by the clinical trial.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Application of genetic material (usually DNA) into cells in order to permanently correct an inherited disease or acquired disease.
C15238
Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
Gene Therapy
Gene Therapy
C0017296
CDISC
CTRP
Application of genetic material into cells in order to correct an inherited or acquired disease.
Treatment of human disease by gene transfer.
Treatment that alters a gene. In studies of gene therapy for cancer, researchers are trying to improve the body's natural ability to fight the disease or to make the cancer cells more sensitive to other kinds of therapy.
Gene_Therapy
Gene therapy techniques attempt to replace a faulty or missing gene associated with a particular disease, mediate localized delivery of a protein producing specified therapeutic effects, or introduce new cellular functions.
DNA Therapy
GENETIC
Gene Therapy
Gene Transfer Procedure
Gene transfer
Genetic
Intervention, Genetic
Molecular Biology, Gene Therapy
gene therapy
Gene Therapy
Genetic
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A multidisciplinary field of inquiry that examines the costs, quality, accessibility, delivery, organization, financing, and outcomes of health care services.
One or more interventions for evaluating the delivery, processes, management, organization, or financing of healthcare.
C15245
Research Activity
Health Services Research
C0018757
CDISC
A type of study designed to evaluate the delivery, processes, management, organization or financing of health care. (ClinicalTrials.gov)
Health_Services_Research
HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
Health Services Research
Health Services Research
One or more interventions for evaluating the delivery, processes, management, organization, or financing of healthcare.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A diagnostic or treatment procedure performed by manual and/or instrumental means, often involving an incision and the removal or replacement of a diseased organ or tissue; of or relating to or involving or used in surgery or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery.
C15329
Health Care Activity
Surgical Procedure
Surgical Procedure
C0543467
CPTAC
CTRP
NICHD
A procedure to remove or repair a part of the body or to find out whether disease is present. An operation.
Surgical_Procedure
Surgical Procedure
Surgery
Surgically Treated
Operation
Surgery
Surgical
Surgical Interventions
Surgical Procedure
Surgical Procedures
Surgically
Type of Surgery
surgery
Surgical Procedure
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A clinical research protocol designed to test a new biomedical intervention in a small group of people for the first time. A Phase I trial can be to establish the toxicity of a new treatment with escalating intensity of the treatment administered and/or to determine the side effects of a new treatment for a particular indication in subjects.
Includes initial studies to determine the metabolism and pharmacologic actions of drugs in humans, the side effects associated with increasing doses, and to gain early evidence of effectiveness; may include healthy participants and/or patients.
C15600
Research Activity
Phase I Trial
C0920321
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
The first step in testing a new treatment in humans. These studies test the best way to give a new treatment (for example, by mouth, intravenous infusion, or injection) and the best dose. The dose is usually increased a little at a time in order to find the highest dose that does not cause harmful side effects. Because little is known about the possible risks and benefits of the treatments being tested, phase I trials usually include only a small number of patients who have not been helped by other treatments.
The initial introduction of an investigational new drug into humans. Phase 1 studies are typically closely monitored and may be conducted in patients or normal volunteer subjects. NOTE: These studies are designed to determine the metabolism and pharmacologic actions of the drug in humans, the side effects associated with increasing doses, and, if possible, to gain early evidence on effectiveness. During Phase 1, sufficient information about the drug's pharmacokinetics and pharmacological effects should be obtained to permit the design of well-controlled, scientifically valid Phase 2 studies. The total number of subjects and patients included in Phase 1 studies varies with the drug, but is generally in the range of 20 to 80. Phase 1 studies also include studies of drug metabolism, structure-activity relationships, and mechanism of action in humans, as well as studies in which investigational drugs are used as research tools to explore biological phenomena or disease processes. [after FDA CDER handbook, ICH E8]
The initial introduction of an investigational new drug into humans. Phase 1 studies are typically closely monitored and may be conducted in patients or normal volunteer subjects. NOTE: These studies are designed to determine the metabolism and pharmacologic actions of the drug in humans, the side effects associated with increasing doses, and, if possible, to gain early evidence on effectiveness. During Phase 1, sufficient information about the drug's pharmacokinetics and pharmacological effects should be obtained to permit the design of well-controlled, scientifically valid, Phase 2 studies. The total number of subjects and patients included in Phase I studies varies with the drug, but is generally in the range of 20 to 80. Phase 1 studies also include studies of drug metabolism, structure-activity relationships, and mechanism of action in humans, as well as studies in which investigational drugs are used as research tools to explore biological phenomena or disease processes. [After FDA CDER Handbook, ICH E8] (CDISC glossary)
Phase_I_Trial
1
Clinical Trials, Phase I
Early-Stage Clinical Trials
PHASE I TRIAL
Phase 1 Study
Phase I Clinical Trials
Phase I Protocol
Phase I Study
Phase I Trial
Trial Phase 1
phase 1
phase I trial
Phase I Trial
Includes initial studies to determine the metabolism and pharmacologic actions of drugs in humans, the side effects associated with increasing doses, and to gain early evidence of effectiveness; may include healthy participants and/or patients.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A clinical research protocol designed to study a biomedical or behavioral intervention in a larger group of people (several hundred), to evaluate the drug's effectiveness for a particular indication in patients with the disease or condition under study, and to determine the common short-term side effects and risks associated with the intervention.
Includes controlled clinical studies conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug for a particular indication or indications in participants with the disease or condition under study and to determine the common short-term side effects and risks.
C15601
Research Activity
Phase II Trial
C0282460
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
A study to test whether a new treatment has an anticancer effect (for example, whether it shrinks a tumor or improves blood test results) and whether it works against a certain type of cancer.
Controlled clinical studies conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug for a particular indication or indications in patients with the disease or condition under study and to determine the common short-term side effects and risks associated with the drug. NOTE: Phase 2 studies are typically well controlled, closely monitored, and conducted in a relatively small number of patients, usually involving no more than several hundred subjects. [after FDA CDER handbook, ICH E8]
Phase 2. Controlled clinical studies conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug for a particular indication or indications in patients with the disease or condition under study and to determine the common short-term side effects and risks associated with the drug. NOTE: Phase 2 studies are typically well controlled, closely monitored, and conducted in a relatively small number of patients, usually involving no more than several hundred subjects. [After FDA CDER Handbook, ICH E8] (CDISC glossary)
Phase_II_Trial
2
Clinical Trials, Phase II
PHASE II TRIAL
Phase 2 Study
Phase II Clinical Trial
Phase II Protocol
Phase II Study
Phase II Trial
Trial Phase 2
phase 2
phase II trial
Phase II Trial
Includes controlled clinical studies conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug for a particular indication or indications in participants with the disease or condition under study and to determine the common short-term side effects and risks.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A clinical research protocol designed to investigate the efficacy of the biomedical or behavioral intervention in large groups of human subjects (from several hundred to several thousand), to confirm efficacy, to monitor adverse reactions to the new medication or treatment regimen with respect to long-term use and by comparing the intervention to other standard or experimental interventions as well as to a placebo.
Includes trials conducted after preliminary evidence suggesting effectiveness of the drug has been obtained, and are intended to gather additional information to evaluate the overall benefit-risk relationship of the drug.
C15602
Research Activity
Phase III Trial
C0282461
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
A study to compare the results of people taking a new treatment with the results of people taking the standard treatment (for example, which group has better survival rates or fewer side effects). In most cases, studies move into phase III only after a treatment seems to work in phases I and II. Phase III trials may include hundreds of people.
Phase 3. Studies are expanded controlled and uncontrolled trials. They are performed after preliminary evidence suggesting effectiveness of the drug has been obtained, and are intended to gather the additional information about effectiveness and safety that is needed to confirm efficacy and evaluate the overall benefit-risk relationship of the drug and to provide an adequate basis for physician labeling. NOTE: Phase 3 studies usually include from several hundred to several thousand subjects. [After FDA CDER Handbook, ICH E8] (CDISC glossary)
Studies are expanded controlled and uncontrolled trials. They are performed after preliminary evidence suggesting effectiveness of the drug has been obtained and are intended to gather the additional information about effectiveness and safety that is needed to confirm efficacy and evaluate the overall benefit-risk relationship of the drug and to provide an adequate basis for physician labeling. NOTE: Phase 3 studies usually include from several hundred to several thousand subjects. [after FDA CDER handbook, ICH E8]
Phase_III_Trial
3
Clinical Trials, Phase III
PHASE III TRIAL
Phase 3 Study
Phase III Clinical Trial
Phase III Protocol
Phase III Study
Phase III Trial
Phase III Trials
Trial Phase 3
phase 3
phase III trial
Phase III Trial
Includes trials conducted after preliminary evidence suggesting effectiveness of the drug has been obtained, and are intended to gather additional information to evaluate the overall benefit-risk relationship of the drug.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A randomized, controlled trial that is designed to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of a drug for a given indication. Often they are designed to study side effects that may have become apparent after the phase III study was completed.
Studies of FDA-approved drugs to delineate additional information including the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use.
C15603
Research Activity
Phase IV Trial
C0282462
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
After a treatment has been approved and is being marketed, it is studied in a phase IV trial to evaluate side effects that were not apparent in the phase III trial. Thousands of people are involved in a phase IV trial.
Phase 4. Postmarketing (Phase 4) studies to delineate additional information about the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use that may be requested by regulatory authorities in conjunction with marketing approval. NOTE: These studies could include, but would not be limited to, studying different doses or schedules of administration than were used in Phase 2 studies, use of the drug in other patient populations or other stages of the disease, or use of the drug over a longer period of time. [After FDA CDER Handbook, ICH E8] (CDISC glossary)
Post approval studies to delineate additional information about the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use that may be requested by regulatory authorities in conjunction with marketing approval. NOTE: These studies could include, but would not be limited to, studying different doses or schedules of administration than were used in Phase 2 studies, use of the drug in other patient populations or other stages of the disease, or use of the drug over a longer period of time. [after FDA CDER handbook, ICH E8]
Phase_IV_Trial
4
Clinical Trials, Phase IV
PHASE IV TRIAL
Phase 4 Study
Phase IV Clinical Trials
Phase IV Study
Phase IV Trial
Trial Phase 4
phase 4
phase IV trial
Phase IV Trial
Studies of FDA-approved drugs to delineate additional information including the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A clinical research protocol designed to study the safety, dosage levels and response to new treatment. Phase I/II trials combine a Phase I and a Phase II trial of the same treatment into a single protocol.
Trials that are a combination of phases 1 and 2.
C15693
Research Activity
Phase I/II Trial
C1519043
CDISC
A class of clinical study that combines elements characteristic of traditional Phase I and Phase II trials. See also Phase I, Phase II.
A trial to study the safety, dosage levels, and response to a new treatment.
Phase_I_II_Trial
1-2
PHASE I/II TRIAL
Phase I/II Trial
Phase I/II trial
Trial Phase 1-2
Trial Phase 1/2
Phase I/II Trial
Trials that are a combination of phases 1 and 2.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A type of clinical study that combines elements characteristic of traditional Phase II and Phase III trials.
Trials that are a combination of phases 2 and 3.
C15694
Research Activity
Phase II/III Trial
C1519042
CDISC
A class of clinical study that combines elements characteristic of traditional Phase II and Phase III trials.
A trial to study response to a new treatment and the effectiveness of the treatment compared with the standard treatment regimen.
Phase_II_III_Trial
2-3
PHASE II/III TRIAL
Phase II/III Trial
Trial Phase 2-3
Trial Phase 2/3
phase II/III trial
Phase II/III Trial
Trials that are a combination of phases 2 and 3.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Fundamental research designed to obtain or increase general scientific knowledge.
One or more interventions for examining the basic mechanism of action (for example, physiology or biomechanics of an intervention).
C15714
Research Activity
Basic Research
C0681833
CDISC
A type of study designed to examine the basic mechanism of action (e.g., physiology, biomechanics) of an intervention. (ClinicalTrials.gov)
Basic_Science
BASIC SCIENCE
Basic Research
Basic Science
Basic Science Research
Basic Research
One or more interventions for examining the basic mechanism of action (for example, physiology or biomechanics of an intervention).
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Studies among cancer patients and healthy populations that involve no intervention or alteration in the status of the participants.
C16084
Research Activity
Observational Study
C1518527
CDISC
A type of study in which individuals are observed or certain outcomes are measured. No attempt is made to affect the outcome (for example, no treatment is given).
Studies in which biomedical and/or health outcomes are assessed in pre-defined groups of individuals. Subjects in the study may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other interventions, but the investigator does not assign specific interventions to the subjects of the study.
Observational_Study
OBSERVATIONAL
Observational Study
Observational Trial
observational study
Observational Study
Primary disease(s) or condition(s) being studied in the trial, or the focus of the study. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied. On ClinicalTrials.gov, conditions may also include other health-related issues, such as lifespan, quality of life, and health risks.
The name(s) of the disease(s) or condition(s) studied in the clinical study, or the focus of the clinical study. Use, if available, appropriate descriptors from NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)-controlled vocabulary thesaurus or terms from another vocabulary, such as the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine—Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), that has been mapped to MeSH within the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus.
C161319
Qualitative Concept
Condition or Disease under Study
CDISC
Primary disease(s) or condition(s) being studied in the trial, or the focus of the study. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Condition or Disease under Study
Primary Disease or Condition Being Studied in the Trial, or the Focus of the Study
health condition(s) or problem(s) studied
target disease
condition
Condition or Disease under Study
The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied. On ClinicalTrials.gov, conditions may also include other health-related issues, such as lifespan, quality of life, and health risks.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
The name(s) of the disease(s) or condition(s) studied in the clinical study, or the focus of the clinical study. Use, if available, appropriate descriptors from NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)-controlled vocabulary thesaurus or terms from another vocabulary, such as the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine—Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), that has been mapped to MeSH within the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
health condition(s) or problem(s) studied
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
The distinguishing qualities or prominent aspects of an individual person.
C19332
Organism Attribute
Personal Attribute
C0681884
Personal_Attribute
Personal
Personal Attribute
Subject Characteristics
Personal Attribute
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates the age a person must be to participate in a clinical study.
How long something has existed; elapsed time since birth.
C25150
Organism Attribute
Age
C0001779
CDISC
FDA
NICHD
How long something has existed; elapsed time since birth. (NCI)
The time elapsed since birth.
Age
Chronological Age
AGE
Age
Aged
Chronological Age
Postnatal Age
age
Age
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates the age a person must be to participate in a clinical study.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
A formal document that describes a complete plan of research activity in the framework of a clinical study; specifically, the study objective(s), design, methodology, eligibility requests for prospective subjects and controls; intervention regimen(s), proposed methods of analysis of data; statistical considerations, and organization of the study. The protocol usually also provides the background and rationale for the trial, but these could be represented in other protocol referenced documents.
C25320
Intellectual Product
Clinical Study Protocol
C1507394
BRIDG
CDISC-GLOSS
CareLex
A detailed plan of a scientific or medical experiment, treatment, or procedure. In clinical trials, it states what the study will do, how it will be done, and why it is being done. It explains how many people will be in the study, who is eligible to take part in it, what study drugs or other interventions will be given, what tests will be done and how often, and what information will be collected.
A discrete, structured plan (that persists over time) of a formal investigation to assess the utility, impact, pharmacological, physiological, and/or psychological effects of a particular treatment, procedure, drug, device, biologic, food product, cosmetic, care plan, or subject characteristic. NOTE(S): The term "protocol" is somewhat overloaded and must be qualified to provide semantic context. Therefore the term "study protocol" was chosen to disambiguate it from other protocols. In previous versions of BRIDG, there was one class for StudyProtocol. However this too represented multiple distinct aspects of the semantics of study protocol, each of which have now been split into separate classes:- The StudyProtocol class represents the content of the study protocol and can exist even before the information is put into document form. - The details of the structured plan for the study protocol are represented by the StudyProtocolVersion, so named because any aspect of the definition can change from version to version. These details include, but are not limited to, the characteristics, specifications, objective(s), background, the pre-study/study/post-study portions of the plan (including the design, methodology, statistical considerations, organization).- The protocol and its versions can each be represented in document form, respectively StudyProtocolDocument and StudyProtocolDocumentVersion. A StudyProtocolDocument groups the various document versions (StudyProtocolDocumentVersions).- The conduct of a study based on a study protocol definition is represented by the StudyExecution class.
A formal document that describes a complete plan of research activity in the framework of a clinical study; specifically, the study objective(s), design, methodology, eligibility requests for prospective subjects and controls; intervention regimen(s), proposed methods of analysis of data; statistical considerations, and organization of the study. The protocol usually also provides the background and rationale for the trial, but these could be represented in other protocol referenced documents. [NCI]
See protocol.
Protocol
Clinical Study Protocol
Clinical Trial Protocol
Full Protocol
Prot
Protocol
Protocol Amendment
Study Protocol
StudyProtocol
Trial Protocol
clinical protocol
protocol
Clinical Study Protocol
A person or organization that supports or champions something.
C48355
Human
Sponsor
C1711305
Sponsor
Applicant
Sponsor
Sponsor
A type of study designed to evaluate method(s) aimed at identifying a disease or condition.
One or more interventions are being evaluated for identifying a disease or health condition.
C49653
Research Activity
Diagnosis Study
C1704656
CDISC
A type of study designed to evaluate intervention(s) aimed at identifying a disease or condition.
Diagnosis_Study
DIAGNOSIS
Diagnosis Study
Diagnostic Study
Diagnosis Study
One or more interventions are being evaluated for identifying a disease or health condition.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A type of study protocol designed to evaluate intervention(s) for disease treatment.
One or more interventions are being evaluated for treating a disease, syndrome, or condition.
C49656
Research Activity
Treatment Study
C3161471
CDISC
A type of study designed to evaluate intervention(s) for treatment of disease, syndrome or condition.
Treatment_Study
TREATMENT
Therapy Trial
Treatment Study
Treatment Study
One or more interventions are being evaluated for treating a disease, syndrome, or condition.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A type of study protocol designed to evaluate intervention(s) for disease prevention.
One or more interventions are being assessed for preventing the development of a specific disease or health condition.
C49657
Research Activity
Prevention Study
C1706420
CDISC
A type of study designed to identify actions necessary to permanently eliminate or reduce the long-term risk to human life as a result of a particular medication or treatment regimen.
Prevention_Study
PREVENTION
Prevention Study
Preventive Clinical Trial
Prophylaxis Study
Prevention Study
One or more interventions are being assessed for preventing the development of a specific disease or health condition.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
The number of subjects entered in a clinical trial.
C49692
Group Attribute
Planned Subject Number
C1709561
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
The number of subjects in a class or group (including the total for the entire trial) intended to be enrolled in a trial to reach the planned sample size. Target enrollments are set so that statistical and scientific objectives of a trial will have a likelihood of being met as determined by agreement, algorithm, or other specified process.
The planned number of subjects to be entered in a clinical trial. (NCI)
Planned_Subject_Number
Anticipated Enrollment
PLANSUB
Planned Enrollment
Planned Number of Subjects
Planned Subject Number
Target Enrollment
target enrollment
target number
target size
Planned Subject Number
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
The distribution of resources over various time periods, products, operations, or investments.
The method by which participants are assigned to arms in a clinical trial.
C52580
Activity
Allocation
C1706778
CDISC
The process of assigning subjects to particular treatment groups or cohorts in a clinical study.
Allocation
Allocation
Subject Allocation
Allocation
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
The method by which participants are assigned to arms in a clinical trial.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Information regarding the means of contacting a person or group.
C60776
Conceptual Entity
Contact Information
C1880174
Contact_Information
Contact Info
Contact Information
Contact Information
An entity such as an individual, company, institution, group, or organization which takes responsibility for the initiation, management, and/or financing of a clinical study. The sponsor does not actually conduct the investigation unless the sponsor is a sponsor-investigator. A person other than an individual (e.g., corporation or agency) that uses one or more of its own employees to conduct research it has initiated is considered to be a sponsor, and the employees are considered to be investigators. [21 CFR P.50.3(k)] [21 CFR P.50.102(j)] [21 CFR P.312.3]
C70793
Health Care Related Organization
Clinical Study Sponsor
C2347796
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
CareLex
An entity that is responsible for the initiation, management, and/or financing of a clinical study.
An entity that is responsible for the initiation, management, and/or financing of a clinical study.[NCI]
An individual, company, institution, or organization that takes responsibility for the initiation, management, and/or financing of a clinical trial. NOTE: If there is also a secondary sponsor, the responsible entity would be considered the primary sponsor. A corporation or agency whose employees conduct the investigation is considered a sponsor and the employees are considered investigators. [After ICH E6, WHO, 21 CFR 50.3 (e), and after IDMP] See also secondary sponsor.
Clinical_Study_Sponsor
CLINICAL STUDY SPONSOR
Clinical Study Sponsor
SPONSOR
Sponsor
Study Sponsor
sponsor
Clinical Study Sponsor
The formal plan of an experiment or research activity, including the objective, rationale, design, materials and methods for the conduct of the study; intervention description, and method of data analysis.
The written description of the clinical study, including objective(s), design, and methods. It may also include relevant scientific background and statistical considerations (if the protocol document includes the statistical analysis plan, use "Study Protocol with SAP and/or ICF" option). Note: All amendments approved by a human subjects protection review board (if applicable), before the time of submission and that apply to all clinical trial Facility Locations must be included.
C70817
Intellectual Product
Study Protocol
C2348563
CDISC
The formal plan of an experiment or research activity, including the objective, rationale, design, materials and methods for the conduct of the study, intervention description, and method of data analysis.
Study_Protocol
Protocol
Study Protocol
Study Protocol
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
The written description of the clinical study, including objective(s), design, and methods. It may also include relevant scientific background and statistical considerations (if the protocol document includes the statistical analysis plan, use "Study Protocol with SAP and/or ICF" option). Note: All amendments approved by a human subjects protection review board (if applicable), before the time of submission and that apply to all clinical trial Facility Locations must be included.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/results_definitions.html
A clinical study that is designed using a procedure in which one or more parties to the study [subject(s), investigator(s), monitor, or/and data analyst(s)] are kept unaware of the treatment assignment(s).
C70840
Research Activity
Blinded Clinical Study
C2347038
CDISC-GLOSS
A study in which the subject, the investigator, or anyone assessing the outcome is unaware of the treatment assignment(s). NOTE: Blinding is used to reduce the potential for bias. [Modified ICH E6 Glossary] See also blinding/masking, double-blind study, single-blind study, triple-blind study; contrast with open-label or unblinded study.
A type of study in which the patients (single-blinded) or the patients and their doctors (double-blinded) do not know which drug or treatment is being given. The opposite of a blinded study is an open label study.
Blinded_Clinical_Study
Blind Clinical Study
Blinded Clinical Study
Blinded Clinical Trial
Masked Clinical Study
blinded study
Blinded Clinical Study
Clinical studies testing the efficacy of devices, techniques, procedures, or tests for the purpose of detecting the presence of disease, usually before there are any symptoms.
One or more interventions are assessed or examined for identifying a condition, or risk factors for a condition, in people who are not yet known to have the condition or risk factor.
C71485
Research Activity
Screening Study
C2348164
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
A type of study designed to assess or examine methods of identifying a condition (or risk factors for a condition) in people who are not yet known to have the condition (or risk factor). (Clinicaltrials.gov)
Trials conducted to detect persons with early, mild, and asymptomatic disease.
Screening_Study
SCREENING
Screening Study
Screening Trial
screening trials
Screening Study
One or more interventions are assessed or examined for identifying a condition, or risk factors for a condition, in people who are not yet known to have the condition or risk factor.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Clinical studies intended to improve the comfort and quality of life for the patient using drugs, nutritional, dietary, behavioral or other interventions.
One or more interventions are evaluated for maximizing comfort, minimizing side effects, or mitigating against a decline in the participant's health or function.
C71486
Research Activity
Supportive Care Study
C2348611
CDISC
A type of study designed to evaluate one or more interventions where the primary intent is to maximize comfort, minimize side effects or mitigate against a decline in the subject's health or function. In general, supportive care interventions are not intended to cure a disease. (ClinicalTrials.gov)
Supportive_Care_Study
SUPPORTIVE CARE
Supportive Care Study
Supportive Care Trial
Supportive Care Study
One or more interventions are evaluated for maximizing comfort, minimizing side effects, or mitigating against a decline in the participant's health or function.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A type of clinical study in which two or more treatments are given alone and in combination, such that all possible combinations are represented across the treatment arms, and are compared in parallel against the study control group.
Two or more interventions, each alone and in combination, are evaluated in parallel against a control group
C82638
Research Activity
Factorial Study
C2826344
CDISC
Two or more interventions, each alone or in combination, are evaluated in parallel against a control group. This study design allows for the comparison of active drug to placebo, presence of drug-drug interactions, and comparison of active drugs against each other.
Factorial_Study
FACTORIAL
Factorial Study
Factorial Study
Two or more interventions, each alone and in combination, are evaluated in parallel against a control group
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Any of two or more parties working jointly towards a common goal.
C84336
Conceptual Entity
Collaborator
C2827395
Collaborator
Collaborator
The country in which the test is conducted.
C90467
Geographic Area
Test Facility Country
C2983675
CDISC
The country of the place in which a nonclinical laboratory study takes place, i.e., actually uses the test article in a test system. Testing facility includes any establishment required to register under section 510 of the act that conducts nonclinical laboratory studies and any consulting laboratory described in section 704 of the act that conducts such studies. Testing facility encompasses only those operational units that are being or have been used to conduct nonclinical laboratory studies. (FDA)
TFCNTRY
Test Facility Country
Test Facility Country
The name of the place in which a test is conducted.
C90469
Intellectual Product
Test Facility Name
C2983677
CDISC
The name of the place in which a nonclinical laboratory study takes place, i.e., actually uses the test article in a test system. Testing facility includes any establishment required to register under section 510 of the act that conducts nonclinical laboratory studies and any consulting laboratory described in section 704 of the act that conducts such studies. Testing facility encompasses only those operational units that are being or have been used to conduct nonclinical laboratory studies. (FDA)
TSTFNAM
Test Facility Name
Test Facility Name
A condition that is a focus of the study.
C93360
Qualitative Concept
Study Condition
C2985574
BRIDG
A condition that is a focus of the study.
Study Condition
StudyCondition
Study Condition
Studies in which individuals are assigned by an investigator based on a protocol to receive specific interventions. Subjects may receive diagnostic, therapeutic or other types of interventions. The assignment of the intervention may or may not be random. The individuals are then followed and biomedical and/or health outcomes are assessed.
C98388
Research Activity
Interventional Study
C3274035
CDISC
CDISC-GLOSS
A trial which intervenes with the inviolability of the trial subject for the purpose of the investigation. For example, the administration of an investigational medical product to the trial subject or use of some extra means of intervention (i.e., samples, tests, or questionnaires) that would not otherwise be used. [Clinical Trial Directive EC/20/2001 definitions]
Studies in which individuals are assigned by an investigator based on a protocol to receive specific interventions. Subjects may receive diagnostic, therapeutic or other types of interventions. The assignment of the intervention may or may not be random. The individuals are then followed and biomedical and/or health outcomes are assessed.
INTERVENTIONAL
Interventional Study
interventional clinical trial
Interventional Study
A sequence of letters, numbers, or other characters that uniquely identifies a clinical trial within a clinical trial registry.
C98714
Intellectual Product
Clinical Trial Registry Identifier
C3274381
CDISC
Identification numbers assigned to the protocol by clinicaltrials.gov, EudraCT, or other registries.
Clinical Trial Registry Identifier
REGID
Registry Identifier
Trial Identifying Number
Clinical Trial Registry Identifier
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
An investigational drug product (including biological product) available through expanded access for patients who do not qualify for enrollment in a clinical trial. Expanded Access includes all expanded access types under section 561 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: (1) for individual patients, including emergency use; (2) for intermediate-size patient populations; and (3) under a treatment IND or treatment protocol.
Studies that provide a means for obtaining an experimental drug or device for patients who are not adequately treated by existing therapy, who do not meet the eligibility criteria for enrollment, or who are otherwise unable to participate in another clinical study. Expanded Access studies include individual-patient IND, treatment IND, compassionate use, emergency use or continued access.
C98722
Research Activity
Expanded Access Study
C3274389
CDISC
Studies that provide a means for obtaining an experimental drug or device for patients who are not adequately treated by existing therapy, who do not meet the eligibility criteria for enrollment, or who are otherwise unable to participate in another clinical study. Expanded Access studies include individual-patient IND, treatment IND, compassionate use, emergency use or continued access.
EXPANDED ACCESS
Expanded Access Study
Expanded Access Study
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/expanded_access_definitions.html
An investigational drug product (including biological product) available through expanded access for patients who do not qualify for enrollment in a clinical trial. Expanded Access includes all expanded access types under section 561 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: (1) for individual patients, including emergency use; (2) for intermediate-size patient populations; and (3) under a treatment IND or treatment protocol.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
For each intervention studied in the clinical study, the general type of intervention.
The kind of product or procedure studied in a trial.
C98747
Functional Concept
Intervention Type
C3274412
CDISC
The kind of product or procedure studied in a trial.
INTTYPE
Intervention Type
intervention
Intervention Type
For each intervention studied in the clinical study, the general type of intervention.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
intervention
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
The primary measurement(s) or observation(s) used to measure the effect of experimental variables in a study, or for observational studies, to describe patterns of diseases or traits or associations with exposures, risk factors or treatment. These are the outcome measures used to assess the primary objective(s).
C98772
Intellectual Product
Primary Outcome Measure
C3274433
CDISC
The primary measurement(s) or observation(s) used to measure the effect of experimental variables in a study, or for observational studies, to describe patterns of diseases or traits or associations with exposures, risk factors or treatment. These are the outcome measures used to assess the primary objective(s).
OUTMSPRI
PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE
Primary Outcome Measure
Primary Outcome Measure
Other key measures that will be used to evaluate the intervention(s) or, for observational studies, that are a focus of the study. These are the outcome measures used to assess the secondary objective(s).
C98781
Intellectual Product
Secondary Outcome Measure
C3274440
CDISC
Secondary measures that will be used to evaluate the intervention(s) or, for observational studies, that are a focus of the study. These are the outcome measures used to assess the secondary objective(s).
OUTMSSEC
SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURE
Secondary Outcome Measure
Secondary Outcome Measure
Any untoward or unfavorable medical occurrence in a participant, including any abnormal sign (for example, abnormal physical exam or laboratory finding), symptom, or disease, temporally associated with the participant’s participation in the research, whether or not considered related to the participant’s participation in the research
a pathological bodily process that occurs after a medical intervention. An adverse event is likely caused by the medical intervention; however, such a causal association is not required to be an adverse event.
Melanie Courtot and YH: More work is needed on how to restrict the scope of a term to be an 'adverse event', notably regarding temporal association. When is an appropirate time interval between a medical intervention and an adverse event observed? One week, one month, one year, or a lifetime? For some well-studied medical interventions (e.g., administration of many vaccines or drugs), we probably have a general idea. For many new interventions, we don't know much. In OAE, this issue is associated with defining the 'adverse event incubation time'.
YH: An adverse event is a process that has specified output of some adverse medical outcome (e.g., symptom, sign or accident) after a medical intervention (or process) (e.g., administration of drug or vaccine). The medical intervention can be an administration of a drug, a vaccine (i.e., vaccination), or a special nutritional product (for example, dietary supplement, infant formula, medical food), surgery, or usage of a medical device.
YH: An adverse event is possibly induced by the medical intervention. It can be caused by the medical intervention, or may not be caused by the medical intervention. One ultimate goal (or the goal in clinics) of study adverse events is to assess if the adverse event outcome is due to the medical intervention.
YH: In development of OAE, we initially use vaccine adverse event as our use case. A vaccine adverse event is associated with a vaccination (i.e. a medical intervention), regardless of whether it is considered vaccine-related, and includes any side effect, injury, toxicity, or sensitivity reaction or significant failure of immunization (i.e., a pharmacologic action).
Ref: Baylor NW and Midthum K. Regulation and testing of vaccines. In: Vaccines (Editors: Plotkin S, Orenstein W, and Offit P). 2008. p1623.
YH: The current term 'adverse event' is different from the term definition shown in our paper: He Y, Xiang Z, Sarntivijai S, Toldo L, Ceusters W. OAE: a realism-based biomedical ontology for the representation of adverse events. Adverse Event Representation Workshop, International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO), University at Buffalo, NY, July 26-30, 2011. Full lenghth conference proceeding paper.
We made the name changing in order to make OAE cover the broader sense of the 'adverse event' which does not assume definite causal effect between an adverse event and a medical intervention. In current definition, the adverse event emphasizes the time association and assumes a likelihood of such a causal association. This term 'adverse event' is stil under the OGMS:pathological bodily process.
The 'adverse event' defined in the above paper has now been changed to a new term: 'causal adverse event'. See more information in the new publication: Yongqun He Y, Sirarat Sarntivijai, Yu Lin, Zuoshuang Xiang, Abra Guo, Shelley Zhang, Desikan Jagannathan, Luca Toldo, Cui Tao and Barry Smith. OAE: The Ontology of Adverse Events. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 2014, 5:29 doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-29. PMID: 25093068.PMCID: PMC4120740.
YH: The main scope of OAE includes: (1) represent terms and relations in the area of adverse events, (2) assess possible associations between an adverse event and a medical intervention, particularly, identify any causal effect of a medical intervention to an adverse event; and (2) understand the mechanism (including molecular mechanisms) of causal adverse events.
YH: There has been discussion regarding whether the term 'side effect' is an alternative term for 'adverse event'. In AERO, the term 'AERO:adverse event' represents a subset of those adverse events for which causality has been established. In OAE, an adverse event for which causality has been established is called 'causal adverse event'.
Yongqun He
AE
adverse reaction
WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_event
WEB: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/HowToReport/ucm053087.htm
WEB: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25093068
The OAE official website is: http://www.oae-ontology.org/.
adverse event
Any untoward or unfavorable medical occurrence in a participant, including any abnormal sign (for example, abnormal physical exam or laboratory finding), symptom, or disease, temporally associated with the participant’s participation in the research, whether or not considered related to the participant’s participation in the research
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/results_definitions.html
A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
medical intervention is a planned process that has the goal of diagnosing, preventing or relieving illness or injury.
The act of intervening, interfering or interceding with the intent of modifying the outcome. In medicine, an intervention is usually undertaken to help treat or cure a condition. For example, "Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States,"
Reference:
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=34214 . Some interventions can be used for diagnosis.
The act of intervening, interfering or interceding with the intent of modifying the outcome. In medicine, an intervention is usually undertaken to help treat or cure a condition. For example, "Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States,"
Reference:
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=34214 . Some interventions can be used for diagnosis.
YH
WEB: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_medical_intervention
Intervention(s)
medical intervention
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
Intervention(s)
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
a medical intervention where a patient is administered with a drug
YH
drug administration
a medical intervention that is used for therapeutic purpose
YH
therapeutic intervention
a medical intervention that refers to any series of pre-defined steps that should be followed to achieve a desired result.
YH, SS
WEB: http://www.wisegeekhealth.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-surgery-and-a-procedure.htm
medical procedure
planned process
planned process
Injecting mice with a vaccine in order to test its efficacy
A processual entity that realizes a plan which is the concretization of a plan specification.
'Plan' includes a future direction sense. That can be problematic if plans are changed during their execution. There are however implicit contingencies for protocols that an agent has in his mind that can be considered part of the plan, even if the agent didn't have them in mind before. Therefore, a planned process can diverge from what the agent would have said the plan was before executing it, by adjusting to problems encountered during execution (e.g. choosing another reagent with equivalent properties, if the originally planned one has run out.)
We are only considering successfully completed planned processes. A plan may be modified, and details added during execution. For a given planned process, the associated realized plan specification is the one encompassing all changes made during execution. This means that all processes in which an agent acts towards achieving some
objectives is a planned process.
We are only considering successfully completed planned processes. A plan may be modified, and details added during execution. For a given planned process, the associated realized plan specification is the one encompassing all changes made during execution. This means that all processes in which an agent acts towards achieving some
objectives is a planned process.
Bjoern Peters
branch derived
6/11/9: Edited at workshop. Used to include: is initiated by an agent
This class merges the previously separated objective driven process and planned process, as they the separation proved hard to maintain. (1/22/09, branch call)
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl
planned process
planned process
investigation
Lung cancer investigation using expression profiling, a stem cell transplant investigation, biobanking is not an investigation, though it may be part of an investigation
a planned process that consists of parts: planning, study design execution, documentation and which produce conclusion(s).
Bjoern Peters
OBI branch derived
Could add specific objective specification
Following OBI call November 2012,26th: it was decided there was no need for adding "achieves objective of drawing conclusion" as existing relations were providing equivalent ability. this note closes the issue and validates the class definition to be part of the OBI core
editor = PRS
study
investigation
assay
Assay the wavelength of light emitted by excited Neon atoms. Count of geese flying over a house.
A planned process with the objective to produce information about the material entity that is the evaluant, by physically examining it or its proxies.
12/3/12: BP: the reference to the 'physical examination' is included to point out that a prediction is not an assay, as that does not require physical examiniation.
PlanAndPlannedProcess Branch
measuring
scientific observation
OBI branch derived
study assay
any method
assay
responsible party role
he THERAPIST has the ability to print a separate statement for the patient and each responsible party. http://www.beaverlog.com/therapist/ez_support/billing/responsible_party_statements.htm
a study personnel role played by a party who is accountable for the execution of a study component and can make decisions about the conduct of the study
Person: Jennifer Fostel
responsible party
OBI
responsible party role
intervention design
PMID: 18208636.Br J Nutr. 2008 Jan 22;:1-11.Effect of vitamin D supplementation on bone and vitamin D status among Pakistani immigrants in Denmark: a randomised double-blinded placebo-controlled intervention study.
A description of the manner in which the clinical trial will be conducted.
An intervention design is a study design in which a controlled process applied to the subjects (the intervention) serves as the independent variable manipulated by the experimentalist. The treatment (perturbation or intervention) defined can be defined as a combination of values taken by independent variable manipulated by the experimentalists are applied to the recruited subjects assigned (possibly by applying specific methods) to treatment groups. The specificity of intervention design is the fact that independent variables are being manipulated and a response of the biological system is evaluated via response variables as monitored by possibly a series of assays.
Philppe Rocca-Serra
OBI branch derived
Interventional Study Design
intervention model
intervention design
A description of the manner in which the clinical trial will be conducted.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
investigation agent role
The person perform microarray experiments and submit microarray results (including raw data, processed data) with experiment description to ArrayExpress.
A role borne by an entity and that is realized in a process that is part of an investigation in which an objective is achieved. These processes include, among others: planning, overseeing, funding, reviewing.
Implementing a study means carrying out or performing the study and providing reagents or other materials used in the study and other tasks without which the study would not happen.
Philly2013: Historically, this role would have been borne only by humans or organizations. However, we now also want to enable representing investigations run by robot scientists such as ADAM (King et al, Science, 2009)
GROUP: Role Branch
investigator
OBI
Feb 10, 2009. changes after discussion at OBI Consortium Workshop Feb 2-6, 2009. accepted as core term.
study person role
Philly2013: Historically, this role would have been borne only by humans or organizations. However, we now also want to enable investigations run by robot scientists such as ADAM (King et al, Science, 2009)
investigation agent role
sponsor role
a responsible party role involved with any of the following activities: initiating, managing and funding a study
Person: Jennifer Fostel
sponsor
CDISC definition: sponsor. 1. An individual, company, institution, or organization that takes responsibility for the initiation, management, and/or financing of a clinical trial. 2. A corporation or agency whose employees conduct the investigation is considered a sponsor; employees are considered investigators
sponsor role
organization
PMID: 16353909.AAPS J. 2005 Sep 22;7(2):E274-80. Review. The joint food and agriculture organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives and its role in the evaluation of the safety of veterinary drug residues in foods.
An entity that can bear roles, has members, and has a set of organization rules. Members of organizations are either organizations themselves or individual people. Members can bear specific organization member roles that are determined in the organization rules. The organization rules also determine how decisions are made on behalf of the organization by the organization members.
BP: The definition summarizes long email discussions on the OBI developer, roles, biomaterial and denrie branches. It leaves open if an organization is a material entity or a dependent continuant, as no consensus was reached on that. The current placement as material is therefore temporary, in order to move forward with development. Here is the entire email summary, on which the definition is based:
1) there are organization_member_roles (president, treasurer, branch
editor), with individual persons as bearers
2) there are organization_roles (employer, owner, vendor, patent holder)
3) an organization has a charter / rules / bylaws, which specify what roles
there are, how they should be realized, and how to modify the
charter/rules/bylaws themselves.
It is debatable what the organization itself is (some kind of dependent
continuant or an aggregate of people). This also determines who/what the
bearer of organization_roles' are. My personal favorite is still to define
organization as a kind of 'legal entity', but thinking it through leads to
all kinds of questions that are clearly outside the scope of OBI.
Interestingly enough, it does not seem to matter much where we place
organization itself, as long as we can subclass it (University, Corporation,
Government Agency, Hospital), instantiate it (Affymetrix, NCBI, NIH, ISO,
W3C, University of Oklahoma), and have it play roles.
This leads to my proposal: We define organization through the statements 1 -
3 above, but without an 'is a' statement for now. We can leave it in its
current place in the is_a hierarchy (material entity) or move it up to
'continuant'. We leave further clarifications to BFO, and close this issue
for now.
PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
PERSON: Bjoern Peters
PERSON: Philippe Rocca-Serra
PERSON: Susanna Sansone
GROUP: OBI
organization
protocol
PCR protocol, has objective specification, amplify DNA fragment of interest, and has action specification describes the amounts of experimental reagents used (e..g. buffers, dNTPS, enzyme), and the temperature and cycle time settings for running the PCR.
A plan specification which has sufficient level of detail and quantitative information to communicate it between investigation agents, so that different investigation agents will reliably be able to independently reproduce the process.
PlanAndPlannedProcess Branch
OBI branch derived + wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_%28natural_sciences%29)
study protocol
protocol
informed consent process
A planned process in which a person or their legal representative is informed about key facts about potential risks and benefits of a process and makes a documented decision as to whether the person in question will participate.
09/28/2009 Alan Ruttenberg: This is made a subclass of the higher level processual entity in BFO because I don't want to take a stand on whether it is a process aggregate. Analogous to the situation with Material entity.
Person:Alan Ruttenberg
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/info/glossary#informed
2009/09/28 Alan Ruttenberg. Fucoidan-use-case
informed consent process
device
A voltmeter is a measurement device which is intended to perform some measure function.
An autoclave is a device that sterlizes instruments or contaminated waste by applying high temperature and pressure.
A material entity that is designed to perform a function in a scientific investigation, but is not a reagent.
2012-12-17 JAO: In common lab usage, there is a distinction made between devices and reagents that is difficult to model. Therefore we have chosen to specifically exclude reagents from the definition of "device", and are enumerating the types of roles that a reagent can perform.
2013-6-5 MHB: The following clarifications are outcomes of the May 2013 Philly Workshop. Reagents are distinguished from devices that also participate in scientific techniques by the fact that reagents are chemical or biological in nature and necessarily participate in some chemical interaction or reaction during the realization of their experimental role. By contrast, devices do not participate in such chemical reactions/interactions. Note that there are cases where devices use reagent components during their operation, where the reagent-device distinction is less clear. For example:
(1) An HPLC machine is considered a device, but has a column that holds a stationary phase resin as an operational component. This resin qualifies as a device if it participates purely in size exclusion, but bears a reagent role that is realized in the running of a column if it interacts electrostatically or chemically with the evaluant. The container the resin is in (“the column”) considered alone is a device. So the entire column as well as the entire HPLC machine are devices that have a reagent as an operating part.
(2) A pH meter is a device, but its electrode component bears a reagent role in virtue of its interacting directly with the evaluant in execution of an assay.
(3) A gel running box is a device that has a metallic lead as a component that participates in a chemical reaction with the running buffer when a charge is passed through it. This metallic lead is considered to have a reagent role as a component of this device realized in the running of a gel.
In the examples above, a reagent is an operational component of a device, but the device itself does not realize a reagent role (as bearing a reagent role is not transitive across the part_of relation). In this way, the asserted disjointness between a reagent and device holds, as both roles are never realized in the same bearer during execution of an assay.
PERSON: Helen Parkinson
instrument
OBI development call 2012-12-17.
device
country name
A textual entity that denotes a geographic location that is a site or part of a site that is identified as a country in the political geography.
Person: Chris Stoeckert, Jie Zheng
NIAID GSCID-BRC metadata working group
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
Specimen Collection Location - Country
NIAID GSCID-BRC
country name
selection criterion
rats should be aged between 6 and 8 weeks and weight between 180-250grams
A directive information entity which defines and states a principle of standard by which selection process may take place.
Person: Philippe Rocca-Serra
selection rule
OBI discussion summarized under the following tracker item : http://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/678/
selection criterion
selection
PMID: 24023800. In this study, a set of eleven genes (VATP16, 60 S, UQCC, SMD3, EF1α, UBQ, SAND, GAPDH, ACT, PsaB, PTB2) was evaluated to identify reference genes during the first hours of interaction (6, 12, 18 and 24 hpi) between two V. vinifera genotypes and P. viticola. Two analyses were used for the selection of reference genes: direct comparison of susceptible, Trincadeira, and resistant, Regent, V. vinifera cultivars at 0 h, 6, 12, 18 and 24 hours post inoculation with P. viticola (genotype effect); and comparison of each genotype with mock inoculated samples during inoculation time-course (biotic stress effect). Three statistical methods were used, GeNorm, NormFinder, and BestKeeper, allowing to identify UBQ, EF1α and GAPDH as the most stable genes for the genotype effect.
A planned process which results in the creation of group of entity from a larger group by the application of predefined criteria.
this term refers to a planned process and therefore is distinct from the notion of 'natural selection', a process covering the operation of natural causes by which those individuals of a species that are best adapted to the environment tend to be preserved and to transmit their characters, while those less adapted die out, so that in the course of generations the degree of adaptation to the environment tends progressively to increase. (as defined by Oxford English Dictionary)
Person: Philippe Rocca-Serra
selection process
OBI
selection
value specification
The value of 'positive' in a classification scheme of "positive or negative"; the value of '20g' on the quantitative scale of mass.
An information content entity that specifies a value within a classification scheme or on a quantitative scale.
This term is currently a descendant of 'information content entity', which requires that it 'is about' something. A value specification of '20g' for a measurement data item of the mass of a particular mouse 'is about' the mass of that mouse. However there are cases where a value specification is not clearly about any particular. In the future we may change 'value specification' to remove the 'is about' requirement.
PERSON:Bjoern Peters
value specification
age group inclusion criterion
"18-33 years old"
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates the age a person must be to participate in a clinical study. This may be indicated by a specific age or the following age groups. The age groups are: Child (birth-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+).
An inclusion criterion that defines and states an age bracket which, if met, makes an entity suitable for a given task or participation in a given process.
Mathias Brochhausen
#839
ages eligible for study
age group inclusion criterion
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates the age a person must be to participate in a clinical study. This may be indicated by a specific age or the following age groups. The age groups are: Child (birth-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+).
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
minimum age value specification
A value specifcation that specifies the youngest age when specifying an age range.
The numerical value, if any, for the minimum age a potential participant must meet to be eligible for the clinical study.
Mathias Brochhausen
minimum age
minimum age value specification
The numerical value, if any, for the minimum age a potential participant must meet to be eligible for the clinical study.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
maximum age value specification
A value specifcation that specifies the oldest age when specifying an age range.
The numerical value, if any, for the maximum age a potential participant can be to be eligible for the clinical study.
Mathias Brochhausen
maximum age
maximum age value specification
The numerical value, if any, for the maximum age a potential participant can be to be eligible for the clinical study.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
sex inclusion criterion
"included males and females", "included male patients"
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates the sex of people who may participate in a clinical study (all, female, male). Sex is a person's classification as female or male based on biological distinctions. Sex is distinct from gender-based eligibility.
An inclusion criterion that defines and states one or more sexes which, if met, makes an entity suitable for a given task or participation in a given process.
Mathias Brochhausen
sexes eligible for study
sex inclusion criterion
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates the sex of people who may participate in a clinical study (all, female, male). Sex is a person's classification as female or male based on biological distinctions. Sex is distinct from gender-based eligibility.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
case-control study design
A study design that entails the creation of two types of roles, such that each participant under investigation bears one or the other. What distinguishes the two types of roles is an 'outcome', which is associated with participants that have the case role but not associated with participants that have the control role. A case-control study examines the hypothesis that the presence of the outcome in case participants is associated with an 'exposure' that is not associated with control participants.
John Judkins, Bjoern Peters
Wikipedia, OBI
case-control study design
observation design
PMID: 12387964.Lancet. 2002 Oct 12;360(9340):1144-9.Deficiency of antibacterial peptides in patients with morbus Kostmann: an observation study.
observation design is a study design in which subjects are monitored in the absence of any active intervention by experimentalists.
Philippe Rocca-Serra
OBI branch derived
observation design
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
study design
a matched pairs study design describes criteria by which subjects are identified as pairs which then undergo the same protocols, and the data generated is analyzed by comparing the differences between the paired subjects, which constitute the results of the executed study design.
A plan specification comprised of protocols (which may specify how and what kinds of data will be gathered) that are executed as part of an investigation and is realized during a study design execution.
Editor note: there is at least an implicit restriction on the kind of data transformations that can be done based on the measured data available.
PERSON: Chris Stoeckert
experimental design
rediscussed at length (MC/JF/BP). 12/9/08). The definition was clarified to differentiate it from protocol.
study design
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
repeated measure design
PMID: 10959922.J Biopharm Stat. 2000 Aug;10(3):433-45.Equivalence in test assay method comparisons for the repeated-measure, matched-pair design in medical device studies: statistical considerations.
a study design which use the same individuals and exposure them to a set of conditions. The effect of order and practice can be confounding factor in such designs
PlanAndPlannedProcess Branch
http://www.holah.karoo.net/experimentaldesigns.htm
repeated measure design
cross over design
PMID: 17601993-Objective: HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy (HIV-lipodystrophy) are insulin resistant and have elevated plasma free fatty acid (FFA) concentrations. We aimed to explore the mechanisms underlying FFA-induced insulin resistance in patients with HIV-lipodystrophy. Research Design and Methods: Using a randomized placebo-controlled cross-over design, we studied the effects of an overnight acipimox-induced suppression of FFA on glucose and FFA metabolism by using stable isotope labelled tracer techniques during basal conditions and a two-stage euglycemic, hyperinsulinemic clamp (20 mU insulin/m(2)/min; 50 mU insulin/m(2)/min) in nine patients with nondiabetic HIV-lipodystrophy. All patients received antiretroviral therapy. Biopsies from the vastus lateralis muscle were obtained during each stage of the clamp. Results: Acipimox treatment reduced basal FFA rate of appearance by 68.9% (52.6%-79.5%) and decreased plasma FFA concentration by 51.6 % (42.0%-58.9%), (both, P < 0.0001). Endogenous glucose production was not influenced by acipimox. During the clamp the increase in glucose-uptake was significantly greater after acipimox treatment compared to placebo (acipimox: 26.85 (18.09-39.86) vs placebo: 20.30 (13.67-30.13) mumol/kg/min; P < 0.01). Insulin increased phosphorylation of Akt (Thr(308)) and GSK-3beta (Ser(9)), decreased phosphorylation of glycogen synthase (GS) site 3a+b and increased GS-activity (I-form) in skeletal muscle (P < 0.01). Acipimox decreased phosphorylation of GS (site 3a+b) (P < 0.02) and increased GS-activity (P < 0.01) in muscle. Conclusion: The present study provides direct evidence that suppression of lipolysis in patients with HIV-lipodystrophy improves insulin-stimulated peripheral glucose-uptake. The increased glucose-uptake may in part be explained by increased dephosphorylation of GS (site 3a+b) resulting in increased GS activity.
Participants receive one of two (or more) alternative interventions during the initial phase of the study and receive the other intervention during the second phase of the study
a repeated measure design which ensures that experimental units receive, in sequence, the treatment (or the control), and then, after a specified time interval (aka *wash-out periods*), switch to the control (or treatment). In this design, subjects (patients in human context) serve as their own controls, and randomization may be used to determine the ordering which a subject receives the treatment and control
Philippe Rocca-Serra
(source: http://www.sbu.se/Filer/Content0/publikationer/1/literaturesearching_1993/glossary.html)
cross over design
Participants receive one of two (or more) alternative interventions during the initial phase of the study and receive the other intervention during the second phase of the study
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
n-to-1 design
N-of-1 design is a cross-over design in which the same patient is repeatedly randomised to receive either the experimental treatment or its control (Senn, 1993).
Philippe Rocca-Serra
Adapted from http://www.childrens-mercy.org/stats/definitions/crossover.htm and source:http://symptomresearch.nih.gov/chapter_6/sec1/csss1pg1.htm)
n-to-1 design
parallel group design
PMID: 17408389-Purpose: Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is the most important reason for blindness following retinal detachment. Presently, vitreous tamponades such as gas or silicone oil cannot contact the lower part of the retina. A heavier-than-water tamponade displaces the inflammatory and PVR-stimulating environment from the inferior area of the retina. The Heavy Silicone Oil versus Standard Silicone Oil Study (HSO Study) is designed to answer the question of whether a heavier-than-water tamponade improves the prognosis of eyes with PVR of the lower retina. Methods: The HSO Study is a multicentre, randomized, prospective controlled clinical trial comparing two endotamponades within a two-arm parallel group design. Patients with inferiorly and posteriorly located PVR are randomized to either heavy silicone oil or standard silicone oil as a tamponading agent. Three hundred and fifty consecutive patients are recruited per group. After intraoperative re-attachment, patients are randomized to either standard silicone oil (1000 cSt or 5000 cSt) or Densiron((R)) as a tamponading agent. The main endpoint criteria are complete retinal attachment at 12 months and change of visual acuity (VA) 12 months postoperatively compared with the preoperative VA. Secondary endpoints include complete retinal attachment before endotamponade removal, quality of life analysis and the number of retina affecting re-operation within 1 year of follow-up. Results: The design and early recruitment phase of the study are described. Conclusions: The results of this study will uncover whether or not heavy silicone oil improves the prognosis of eyes with PVR.
A parallel group design or independent measure design is a study design which uses unique experimental unit each experimental group, in other word no two individuals are shared between experimental groups, hence also known as parallel group design. Subjects of a treatment group receive a unique combination of independent variable values making up a treatment
Participants are assigned to one of two or more groups in parallel for the duration of the study
Philippe Rocca-Serra
independent measure design
http://www.holah.karoo.net/experimentaldesigns.htm
parallel group design
Participants are assigned to one of two or more groups in parallel for the duration of the study
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
factorial design
PMID: 17582121-Our objective was to examine the effects of dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) with different concentrations of dietary crude protein (CP) on performance and acid-base status in early lactation cows. Six lactating Holstein cows averaging 44 d in milk were used in a 6 x 6 Latin square design with a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement of treatments: DCAD of -3, 22, or 47 milliequivalents (Na + K - Cl - S)/100 g of dry matter (DM), and 16 or 19% CP on a DM basis. Linear increases with DCAD occurred in DM intake, milk fat percentage, 4% fat-corrected milk production, milk true protein, milk lactose, and milk solids-not-fat. Milk production itself was unaffected by DCAD. Jugular venous blood pH, base excess and HCO3(-) concentration, and urine pH increased, but jugular venous blood Cl- concentration, urine titratable acidity, and net acid excretion decreased linearly with increasing DCAD. An elevated ratio of coccygeal venous plasma essential AA to nonessential AA with increasing DCAD indicated that N metabolism in the rumen was affected, probably resulting in more microbial protein flowing to the small intestine. Cows fed 16% CP had lower urea N in milk than cows fed 19% CP; the same was true for urea N in coccygeal venous plasma and urine. Dry matter intake, milk production, milk composition, and acid-base status did not differ between the 16 and 19% CP treatments. It was concluded that DCAD affected DM intake and performance of dairy cows in early lactation. Feeding 16% dietary CP to cows in early lactation, compared with 19% CP, maintained lactation performance while reducing urea N excretion in milk and urine.
Two or more interventions, each alone and in combination, are evaluated in parallel against a control group
factorial design is_a study design which is used to evaluate two or more factors simultaneously. The treatments are combinations of levels of the factors. The advantages of factorial designs over one-factor-at-a-time experiments is that they are more efficient and they allow interactions to be detected. In statistics, a factorial design experiment is an experiment whose design consists of two or more factors, each with discrete possible values or levels, and whose experimental units take on all possible combinations of these levels across all such factors. Such an experiment allows studying the effect of each factor on the response variable, as well as the effects of interactions between factors on the response variable.
Philippe Rocca-Serra
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/anova.html#facdes And from wikipedia (01/03/2007): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_experiment)
factorial design
Two or more interventions, each alone and in combination, are evaluated in parallel against a control group
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
eligibility criterion
PMID: 17579629 -Eligibility criteria included: untreated ED-SCLC; age >/=70 and performance status 0-2, or age <70 and PS 3.
A limited list of criteria for selection of participants in the clinical study, provided in terms of inclusion and exclusion criteria and suitable for assisting potential participants in identifying clinical studies of interest.
The key requirements that people who want to participate in a clinical study must meet or the characteristics they must have. Eligibility criteria consist of both inclusion criteria (which are required for a person to participate in the study) and exclusion criteria (which prevent a person from participating). Types of eligibility criteria include whether a study accepts healthy volunteers, has age or age group requirements, or is limited by sex
an eligibility criterion (rule) is_a selection criterion which
defines and states the requirements (positive or negative) for an entity to be considered as suitable for a given task or participation in a process.
Person: Philippe Rocca-Serra
eligibility rule
Adapted from Clinical Research Glossary Version 4.0 CDICS glossary group
eligibility criterion
A limited list of criteria for selection of participants in the clinical study, provided in terms of inclusion and exclusion criteria and suitable for assisting potential participants in identifying clinical studies of interest.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
The key requirements that people who want to participate in a clinical study must meet or the characteristics they must have. Eligibility criteria consist of both inclusion criteria (which are required for a person to participate in the study) and exclusion criteria (which prevent a person from participating). Types of eligibility criteria include whether a study accepts healthy volunteers, has age or age group requirements, or is limited by sex
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
inclusion criterion
PMID: 23979341-The major inclusion criterion was patients in whom severe cerebral embolism was diagnosed at age 75 or younger (more than 9 in the NIHSS score on day 7 after the onset of stroke) .
A type of eligibility criteria. These are the reasons that a person is allowed to participate in a clinical study.
an inclusion criterion (rule) is_a *eligibility criterion* which defines and states a condition which, if met, makes an entity suitable for a given task or participation in a given process. For instance, in a study protocol, inclusion criteria indicate the conditions that prospective subjects MUST meet to be eligible for participation in a study.
Person: Philippe Rocca-Serra
inclusion condition
inclusion rule
Adapted from Clinical Research Glossary Version 4.0 CDICS glossary group
key inclusion criteria
inclusion criterion
A type of eligibility criteria. These are the reasons that a person is allowed to participate in a clinical study.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
key inclusion criteria
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
exclusion rule
PMID: 17600285-Exclusion criteria included the use of any topical ophthalmic or topical oral medication and/or history of ocular or oral surgery within the past six months.
A type of eligibility criteria. These are reasons that a person is not allowed to participate in a clinical study.
an exclusion criterion (rule) is_a *eligibility criterion* which defines and states a condition which, if met, makes an entity unsuitable for a given task or participation in a given process. For instance, in a study protocol, exclusion criteria indicate the conditions that prospective subjects SHOULD NOT meet to be eligible for participation in a study
Person: Philippe Rocca-Serra
Adapted from Clinical Research Glossary Version 4.0 CDICS glossary group
key exclusion criteria
exclusion criterion
A type of eligibility criteria. These are reasons that a person is not allowed to participate in a clinical study.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
key exclusion criteria
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
human subject enrollment
enlisting familiy members of HIV patients into a study
A planned process with the objective to obtain a population of human subjects to participate in an investigation by determining eligibility of subjects and obtaining informed consent.
As with group assignment, should the specified output here be an organism which bears a role
Bjoern Peters
IEDB
criteria come from plan / clinical trial branch
human subject enrollment
A representation that is either the output of a clinical history taking or a physical examination or an image finding, or some combination thereof.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2010-07-19T10:18:02Z
clinical finding
A series of statements representing health-relevant qualities of a patient and of a patient's family.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2010-07-19T10:18:59Z
clinical history
A representation of a quality of a patient that is (1) recorded by a clinician because the quality is hypothesized to be of clinical significance and (2) refers to qualities obtaining in the patient prior to their becoming detectable in a clinical history taking or physical examination.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T10:22:44Z
preclinical finding
A disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:21:20Z
disease
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:53:49Z
bodily process
A bodily process that is clinically abnormal.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:54:29Z
pathological bodily process
1. the determination of the nature of a case of disease.
2. the art of distinguishing one disease from another.
The representation of a conclusion of a diagnostic process.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T12:42:23Z
diagnosis
1. the determination of the nature of a case of disease.
2. the art of distinguishing one disease from another.
https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/doc/EU_Clinical_Trials_Register_Glossary.pdf
A study design that involves repeated observations of the same entity over time. In the biobank context, longitudinal studies sample a group of people in a given time period, and study them at intervals by the acquisition and analyses of data and/or samples over time.
Alice Nzinga
longitudinal study design
A longitudinal study that aims to study a case-defined population who presently have a certain condition or recepient of a particular treatment that are followed over time and are compared with a similar group who do not have condition.
cohort study design
A role inhering in an entity realized by social interactions in human society.
Mathias Brochhausen
Previous definition: A role played by an entity in human social processes.
role in human social processes
A role borne by a human individual or by a collection of humans regarded as possessing rights and duties enforeable at law.
Mathias Brochhausen
Malcolm N. Shaw: International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
We are aware of the fact that Wikipedia's definition differs from ours by saying that "Legal personality (...) is the characteristic of a non-living entity regarded by law to have the status of personhood" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality)
However, Shaw explicates:
"In any legal system, certain entities, whether they be individuals or companies, will be regarded as possessing rights and duties enforceable at law. Thus an individual may prosecute or be prosecuted for assault and a company can sue for breach of contract. They are able to do this because the law recognises them as 'legal persons' possessing the capacity to have and to maintain certain rights, and being subject to perform specific duties. (...) In municipal law individuals, limited companies and public corporations are recognized as each possessing a distinct legal personality, the terms of which are circumscribed by the relevant legislation" (Shaw MN: International Law. Sixth Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008). We hold that Shaw's position is ontological more prolific since it not only allows to explain how groups of individuals become recognized as unities at law, but also how different individuals can hold different legal personality roles (always against the context of one legal system). The latter will proof useful when dealing with the representing comatous patients or minorsat law in ontologies.
legal person role
A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a fixed-line telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other public and private networks.
Oliver He
phone number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number
telephone number
The textual name of the contact person or organization
contact name
The medical state or condition of a patient
Oliver He, Edison Ong
medical state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_state
medical condition
A person who performs an investigation task and takes the role of an investigator role.
investigator
An investigator who is involved in a clinical trial and is responsible for ensuring that an investigation is conducted according to the signed investigator statement, the investigational plan, and applicable regulations; for protecting the rights, safety, and welfare of subjects under the investigator's care; and for the control of drugs under investigation.
Oliver He
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_investigator
clinical investigator
The (estimated) date on which the clinical study is open for recruitment of participants, or the actual date on which the first participant is enrolled.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
date of first enrollment
study start
clinical trial start date
date of first enrollment
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
The date on which a study completes
The date the final participant was examined or received an intervention for purposes of final collection of data for the primary and secondary outcome measures and adverse events (for example, last participant’s last visit), whether the clinical study concluded according to the pre-specified protocol or was terminated.
Oliver He
Completion Date
study completion
study completion date
The date the final participant was examined or received an intervention for purposes of final collection of data for the primary and secondary outcome measures and adverse events (for example, last participant’s last visit), whether the clinical study concluded according to the pre-specified protocol or was terminated.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Completion Date
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
The date on which the study sponsor or investigator first submitted a study record to ClinicalTrials.gov. There is typically a delay of a few days between the first submitted date and the record's availability on ClinicalTrials.gov (the first posted date).
a date when a registration occurs
First submitted
date of registration in primary registry
date of registration
The date on which the study sponsor or investigator first submitted a study record to ClinicalTrials.gov. There is typically a delay of a few days between the first submitted date and the record's availability on ClinicalTrials.gov (the first posted date).
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/glossary
date of registration in primary registry
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
The current stage of a clinical study and whether it is or will be open for enrollment
The recruitment status for the clinical study as a whole, based upon the status of the individual sites. If at least one facility in a multi-site clinical study has an Individual Site Status of "Recruiting," then the Overall Recruitment Status for the study must be "Recruiting."
Oliver He
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/help/glossary/recruitment-status
recruitment status
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/index.html
The recruitment status for the clinical study as a whole, based upon the status of the individual sites. If at least one facility in a multi-site clinical study has an Individual Site Status of "Recruiting," then the Overall Recruitment Status for the study must be "Recruiting."
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Oliver He, Edison Ong
status
The current stage of a clinical study and whether it is or will be open for enrollment
Oliver He
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/help/glossary/recruitment-status
study status
Combining a drug and device, a biological product and device; a drug and biological product; or a drug, biological product, and device
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
combinational intervention
Combining a drug and device, a biological product and device; a drug and biological product; or a drug, biological product, and device
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A medical intervention that involves a behavioral process to control, prevent, or treat a behavior problem.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/educational-strategies/behavior-intervention-plans-what-you-need-to-know
behavioral
behavioral intervention
behavioral
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
human subject
In clinicaltrials.gov, contact information character limits:
First Name: 62 characters
Last Name: 62 characters
Degree: 30 characters
Phone: 30 characters
Phone Ext: 14 characters
Email: 254 characters
Citation: https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html#StudyOfficials
A person who serves as a contact role and has disclosed specified information to be reached. Usually the contact information, such as email and phone number, is provided.,
Leon, Asiyah, Oliver: Since each contact needs to provide some contact information, we may need to define the contact information.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html#StudyOfficials
contact person
A contact person for each facility participating in a study.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
facility contact
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html#StudyOfficials
contact of scientific queries
An investigation agent role that is taken by a human individual
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
human investigator role
investigator role
a role taken by a person who serves as a contact for some process.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
contact person role
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html#StudyOfficials
contact for public queries
A person to whom questions concerning enrollment at any location of the study can be addressed.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
central contact person
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
central contact person of study
information content entity about a contact person
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
contact person information
A sponsor role taken by an individual, organization, group or other legal entity which takes responsibility for initiating, managing and/or financing a study. The Primary Sponsor is responsible for ensuring that the trial is properly registered. The Primary Sponsor may or may not be the main funder.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
primary sponsor role
A sponsor role taken by an additional individual, organization or another legal person, if any, that has agreed with the primary sponsor to take on responsibilities of sponsorship.
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
collaborator role
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A secondary sponsor may have agreed to:
- take on all the responsibilities of sponsorship jointly with the primary sponsor; or
- form a group with the Primary Sponsor in which the responsibilities of sponsorship are allocated among the members of the group; or
- act as the Primary Sponsor’s legal representative in relation to some or all of the trial sites.
by WHO (https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/)
In clinicaltrials.gov, the secondary sponsor role can be taken by a project collaborator (Reference: https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/trainTrainer/WHO-ICMJE-ClinTrialsgov-Cross-Ref.pdf). However, a secondary sponsor may serve as a collaborator role, but a collaborator may not serve as a secondary sponsor role.
secondary sponsor role
An investigator role taken by an individual who is designated as responsible party by the sponsor
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
principal investigator role
An investigator role taken by an individual who both initiates and conducts the study
Leon Li, Asiyah Lin, Oliver He
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
sponsor investigator role
An investigation agent role taken by an agent (an individual, organization, group or another legal entity) who provides support to an investigation. The support may include funding, design, implementation, data analysis or reporting. The responsible party is responsible for confirming all collaborators before listing them.
Leon Li, Asiyah Li, Oliver He
collaborator role
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html#Collaborators
https://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/
A secondary sponsor may serve as a collaborator role. However, a collaborator may not serve as a secondary sponsor role.
investigation collaborator role
A systematic, scientific investigation that can be either interventional or observational and involves human beings as research subjects. Human subject research can be either medical (clinical) research or non-medical (e.g., social science) research.
Oliver He
human investigation
human study
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_subject_research
human subject study
An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's ability to undergo sexual reproduction in order to differentiate the individuals or types involved.
quality
PATO:0000047
biological sex
A biological sex quality inhering in an individual or a population that only produces gametes that can be fertilised by male gametes.
quality
PATO:0000383
female
A biological sex quality inhering in an individual or a population whose sex organs contain only male gametes.
quality
PATO:0000384
male
A quality which inheres in an process.
PATO:0001239
PATO:0001240
quality of a process
quality of occurrent
quality of process
relational quality of occurrent
quality
PATO:0001236
See comments of relational quality of a physical entity.
process quality
A quality which inheres in a continuant.
PATO:0001237
PATO:0001238
snap:Quality
monadic quality of a continuant
multiply inhering quality of a physical entity
quality of a continuant
quality of a single physical entity
quality of an object
quality of continuant
monadic quality of an object
monadic quality of continuant
quality
PATO:0001241
Relational qualities are qualities that hold between multiple entities. Normal (monadic) qualities such as the shape of a eyeball exist purely as a quality of that eyeball. A relational quality such as sensitivity to light is a quality of that eyeball (and connecting nervous system) as it relates to incoming light waves/particles.
physical object quality
An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's physical expression of sexual characteristics.
quality
PATO:0001894
phenotypic sex
A quality that inheres in an entire organism or part of an organism.
quality
PATO:0001995
organismal quality
An information content entity that describes some relationships between some entities and whose truthfullness is a prerequisite for something.
Une entité de contenu informationnel qui décrit des relations entre certaines entités et dont la véracité est un prérequis pour quelque chose.
condition
condition
a medical intervention that involves in adding vaccine into a host (e.g., human, mouse) in vivo with the intent to invoke an adaptive immune response.
vaccination
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
A vaccine clinical trial that investigates the safety profile of a vaccine in a small group (10-50) of healthy volunteers.
YH
phase 1 vaccine trial
A vaccine clinical trial that studies vaccine efficacy with a target population (numbering 50-100). Different dosage levels will also be explored at this stage to determine the optimum dose.
YH
phase 2 vaccine trial
A vaccine clinical trial that takes the trial to a large-scale safety and efficacy study in a relevant patient population, usually in excess of 3,000.
YH
phase 3 vaccine trial
The final stage of vaccine clinical evaluation. Phase IV occurs after a vaccine or therapy is licensed and is being used by large numbers of people. These studies are not always required or completed.
YH
phase 4 vaccine trial
A processual entity by which a vaccine is tested clinically for safety and effectiveness. Clinical trials are conducted in phases. Classically, clinical trials unfold in three phases in order to gather data and information about a vaccine and its performance. This will form the basis of a dossier submitted to regulatory authorities by way of an application for licensure. After a vaccine is licensed and is being used by large numbers of people, a Phase IV study may or may not be taken for vaccine clinical evaluation.
Most vaccines against a pathogen (e.g., HIV) are not tested by vaccinating people and then deliberately exposing them to virulent pathogen (e.g., HIV). This strategy is never for a vaccine against a disease as serious as HIV.
The best way to determine if a vaccine is effective is to test it in a randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial. This type of trial is often referred to as the gold standard in medical research and provides the strongest evidence for the efficacy of a vaccine.
YH
vaccine clinical trial
ready for release
metadata incomplete
pending final vetting
single group of individuals with specific characteristics.
single group of individuals with specific characteristics.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
The Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities
Group of individuals with specific characteristics (for example, conditions or exposures) compared to group(s) with different characteristics, but otherwise similar.
Group of individuals with specific characteristics (for example, conditions or exposures) compared to group(s) with different characteristics, but otherwise similar.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Characteristics of case immediately prior to disease onset (sometimes called the hazard period) compared to characteristics of same case at a prior time (that is, control period).
Characteristics of case immediately prior to disease onset (sometimes called the hazard period) compared to characteristics of same case at a prior time (that is, control period).
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Group of individuals, initially defined and composed, with common characteristics (for example, condition, birth year), who are examined or traced over a given time period.
Group of individuals, initially defined and composed, with common characteristics (for example, condition, birth year), who are examined or traced over a given time period.
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Participants are assigned to one of two or more groups in parallel for the duration of the study
Participants are assigned to one of two or more groups in parallel for the duration of the study
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Participants receive one of two (or more) alternative interventions during the initial phase of the study and receive the other intervention during the second phase of the study
Participants receive one of two (or more) alternative interventions during the initial phase of the study and receive the other intervention during the second phase of the study
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Clinical trials with a single arm
Clinical trials with a single arm
https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/definitions.html
Korean clinical trial registry identifier
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Korean Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS). The format for the registry number is “KCT” followed by a 7-digit number, e.g., KCT0004537.
CRIS identifier
http://cris.nih.go.kr/cris/en/use_guide/cris_introduce.jsp
https://slctr.lk/
Sri Lanka clinical trials registry identifier
SLCTR identifier
A centrally registered identifier that is assigned for a specific clinical trial registered in the Sri Lanka clinical trials registry (SLCTR ). The format for the registry number is “SLCTR /” followed by a 4-digit number, followed by a slash, followed a 3-digit number, e.g., SLCTR/2020/010
jRTC clinical trials register
https://rctportal.niph.go.jp/en/
The jRTC (Japan Registry of Clinical Trials) clinical trial registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
Japan Registry of Clinical Trials
https://jrct.niph.go.jp/
jRTC
The international standard randomised controlled trial register is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that enables the registration of clinical trials.
http://www.isrctn.com/
ISRCTN
International standard randomised controlled trial register