Bill Bug
The BIRN project lexicon
Duplicated all SKOS core:prefLabel Annotations as rdfs:label Annotations using a parsing script supplied by Trish Whetzel (UPenn/OBI community). This makes it possible to use rdfs:label as the DISPLAY_SLOT in Protege to match OBI and to use it to generate OWLDocs where both BIRNLex and OBI classes will use the same AnnotationProperty for their preferred display name (BB: 2007-02-27).
Maryann Martone
1.2
The BIRN Ontology Task Force
Jessica Turner
David Kennedy
Jeff Grethe
en
The BIRN Project lexicon will provide entities for data and database annotation for the BIRN project, covering anatomy, disease, data collection, project management and experimental design. It is built using the organizational framework provided by the foundational Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). It uses an abstract biomedical layer on top of that - OBO-UBO which has been constructed as a proposal to the OBO Foundry. This is meant to support creating a sharable view of core biomedical objects such as biomaterial_entity, and organismal_entity that all biomedical ontologies are likely to need and want to use with the same intended meaning. The BIRNLex biomaterial entities have already been factored to separately maintained ontology - BIRNLexBiomaterialEntity.owl which this BIRNLex-Main.owl file imports. The Ontology of Biomedical Investigation (OBI) is also imported and forms the foundation for the formal description of all experiment-related artifacts. The BIRNLex will serve as the basis for construction of a formal ontology for the multiscale investigation of neurological disease.
2006-07-28
Christine Fennema-Notestine
2007-03-07
Carol Bean
Amarnath Gupta
BIRNLex-Main
The current (2006-10-10) members of the BIRN Ontology Task Force are listed here as the primary curators of the main BIRNLex ontology. Others from within BIRN labs and directly collaborating with BIRN labs have also contributed to specific classes and class properties. Effort is made to provide attribution for each class, where appropriate.
Assessment
Jessica Turner
BF_T0000276
Assessment
curation complete
2006-06-01
2006-10-11
OBI_69
An assessment is the process of evaluating organism attributes via an assessment instrument that results in an assessment measure which may be interpreted in a phenotypical domain.
C0036341
uncurated
2006-06-01
OBI_155
2006-10-11
Schizophrenia
UMLS
Schizophrenia
A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, hallucinations, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior. (MeSH)
Jessica Turner
Handedness
BF_T0000316
A behavioral attribute defined by the unequal distribution of fine motor skill between the left and right hands. Individuals more skilled with the right hand are called 'right-handed', and those more skilled with the left are 'left-handed'. A few people are equally skilled with both, and are termed 'ambidextrous'. (adapted from Wikipedia)
2006-10-11
UMLS
pending final vetting
2006-04-04
Handedness
Maryann Martone
BIRN OTF
This list contains precoordinated terms that will be addressed at a future date.
2006-10-11
Behavioral paradigm in which the subject ingests food.
Eating_paradigm
uncurated
BF_T0000265
2006-06-01
Jessica Turner
Acupuncture_paradigm
A behavioral paradigm where subjects are stimulated with Chinese acupuncture, a procedure in which thin needles are passed through the skin to specific points.
Acupuncture_paradigm
Angie Laird
BrainMap.org
2006-06-01
graph position temporary
BF_T0000339
2006-10-11
BF_T0000338
BrainMap.org
2006-06-01
Action_observation_paradigm
2006-10-11
Action Observation
Jessica Turner
A behavioral paradigm in which subjects view images of moving body parts (Brain Map).
pending final vetting
Clarify the exact nature of this task
Action_observation_paradigm
Mismatch_negativitiy_paradigm
Mismatch_negativitiy_paradigm
behavioral paradigm that assesses a response to non-attended stimuli which are dissimilar to the majority of stimuli presented.
2006-10-11
Jessica Turner
BF_T0000357
Jessica Turner
2006-06-01
2006-10-11
Eating_paradigm
Angie Laird
uncurated
BrainMap.org
curation complete
BrainMap.org
BF_T0000271
2006-06-01
Jessica Turner
Breathhold_paradigm
2006-10-11
A behavioral paradigm that requires subjects to hold their breath one or more times.
Breathhold_paradigm
Angie Laird
This term does not differentiate between lexical and semantic parsing by the subject
Reading_paradigm
2006-06-01
pending final vetting
BF_T0000361
Reading_paradigm
A behavioral paradigm in which a subject is asked to read either silently (covert) or aloud (overt)
BrainMap.org
A behavioral paradigm in which a subject makes a rapid eye movement relative to an initial target (JB).
BIRN uses this term to refer to any paradigm involving a saccadic eye movement. These paradigms include both saccdic movements to and away from the target. Note that this usage differs from that in Brain Map.
Jyl Boline
Eye_Saccade_paradigm
2006-10-11
BF_T0000360
Eye_Saccade_paradigm
pending final vetting
2006-06-01
Maryann Martone
2006-05-15
Electron_microscopic_imaging_assay
2006-10-11
Electron_microscopic_imaging_assay
BIRN OTF
uncurated
Microscopic_imaging_assay
uncurated
2006-05-15
BIRN OTF
Microscopic_imaging_assay
OBI_185
2006-10-11
BIRN OTF
Changed name from the ambiguous Biochemical_protocol to Biochemical_specimen_preparation_protocol (BB).
Biochemical_speciment_preparation_protocol
Biochemical_speciment_preparation_protocol
2006-10-11
Bill Bug
2006-06-01
C0023114
Behavioral_laterality
Behavioral_laterality
This concept ID maps to the term "handedness" and "laterality" in the UMLS. We distinguish in BIRNLex between use of dominant hand (handedness) and other forms of behavioral laterality.
Behavioral_phenotype
2006-10-11
Behavioral_phenotype
uncurated
2006-06-01
BIRN OTF
2006-04-04
A behavioral manifestation of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as in the preferred use of the right hand or right foot. (MeSH)
2006-10-11
pending final vetting
Jeff Grethe
UMLS
Maryann Martone
2006-05-15
Microdissection
2006-10-11
C0598304
Microdissection
uncurated
2006-05-15
Laser_capture
Maryann Martone
method for procuring pure cells from specific microscopic regions of tissue sections; laser beam focally activates a special transfer film which bonds specifically to cells identified and targeted by microscopy within the tissue section, when the film is removed, the chosen cells are tightly held within the focally expanded polymer for microdissection. (CSP)
C1113652
uncurated
2006-10-11
Laser_capture
2006-10-11
BIRN OTF
Imaging_platform
Imaging_platform
OBI_50
2006-06-01
2006-06-01
2006-10-11
BIRN OTF
Magnetic_resonance_imaging_platform
Magnetic_resonance_imaging_platform
uncurated
2006-06-01
2006-10-11
Functional_MRI_platform
BIRN OTF
Functional_MRI_platform
uncurated
Structural_MRI_platform
BIRN OTF
2006-06-01
2006-10-11
uncurated
Structural_MRI_platform
uncurated
Subject group that serves as a standard for comparison in experimental studies. It is similar in relevant characteristics to the experimental group but do not receive the experimental intervention. (MeSH)
C0009932
2006-10-11
OBI_176
Control_group
UMLS
Control_group
Maryann Martone
uncurated
2006-06-01
2006-10-11
Episodic_recall_paradigm
Angie Laird
uncurated
BrainMap.org
Episodic_recall_paradigm
A behavioral paradigm in which subjects recall items from episodic memory (autobiographical history, long-term event memories).
Jessica Turner
2006-06-01
OBI_29
2006-10-11
2006-05-15
BIRN OTF
Specimen_preparation_protocol
Specimen_preparation_protocol
Bill Bug
C0200363
uncurated
C0200363
uncurated
Maryann Martone
UMLS
A behavioral phenotype where the subject preferentially uses the left hand for tasks requiring the use of a single hand or a dominant hand.
2006-10-11
Left_handedness
Left_handedness
2006-04-04
C0234418
nnnnnn
2006-10-11
uncurated
Molecular_phenotype
2006-06-01
BIRN OTF
Molecular_phenotype
2006-06-01
Gene_expression_phenotype
uncurated
Gene_expression_phenotype
2006-10-11
BIRN OTF
2006-10-11
Item_recognition_paradigm
Jessica Turner
2006-10-11
pending final vetting
Item_recognition_paradigm
A behavioral paradigm where sets of target items are presented at the outset and the recognition of one or more of those items vs unfamiliar items is tested using a probe item.
Bill Bug
uncurated
bfo:process
BIRN OTF
Behavioral_process
2006-10-11
Behavioral_process
2006-05-15
Agents employed in the preparation of histologic or pathologic specimens for the purpose of maintaining the existing form and structure of all of the constituent elements. Great numbers of different agents are used; some are also decalcifying and hardening agents. They must quickly kill and coagulate living tissue. (MeSH)
C0016184
Fixative
Reagent
BIRN OTF
2006-05-15
OBI_258
2006-10-11
C0034760
Reagent
Substances intended to detect and/or measure, in some cases producing or modifying other substances, a specific analyte of interest (e.g., enzymes, hormones). Substances used as reagents must be sufficiently pure to appropriately perform a specific analytical test. Reagents are typically used in the clinical laboratory for clinical chemistry, immunochemistry, hematology, microbiology (e.g., culture), infectious immunology, and molecular biology (e.g., nucleic acid technology) tests. (UMD)
uncurated
C0034760
Fixative
uncurated
Reagents used for coagulation and/or precipitation of protoplasmatic substances (i.e., fixation), making them resistant to further changes either from the reagents to which they are subjected or from autolysis and putrefaction before microscopic sections can be prepared. Several substances are used as fixatives, including formaldehyde, mercury chloride, and glutaraldehyde solutions; some include decalcifier additives. (UMD)
C0016184
2006-05-15
BIRN OTF
2006-10-11
Maryann Martone
2006-10-11
i.p.
Intraperotineal_injection
Maryann Martone
Intracellular_injection
BF_T0000117
2006-06-01
Subthelial_injection
uncurated
Maryann Martone
Subthelial_injection
2006-10-11
2006-06-01
Maryann Martone
Injection of a dye or some other indicator agent into a cell using a micropipette to delineate cell morphology or the distribution of a signal across a single cell. May be in fixed or live tissue.
Intracellular_injection
2006-10-11
uncurated
Intraperotineal_injection
2006-10-11
2006-06-01
uncurated
Bill Bug
administration of a drug via injection into a muscle. (CSP)
Forceful administration into a muscle of liquid medication, nutrient, or other fluid through a hollow needle piercing the muscle and any tissue covering it. (MeSH)
Intramuscular_injection
Maryann Martone
i.m.
C0021492
Intramuscular_injection
2006-10-11
2006-06-01
C0021492
uncurated
Intrathecal_injection
uncurated
C0021896
2006-06-01
C0021896
Intrathecal_injection
BF_T0000184
uncurated
Maryann Martone
Collaborator
2006-07-15
2006-10-11
Collaborator
Participant in a research project or experiment, who is not the primary investigator, who performs portions of the research project or who makes significant intellectual contributions to the research project.
2006-10-11
uncurated
Role played by individual investigators during the course of an investigation
Maryann Martone
Investigator_role
2006-07-15
Investigator_role
Jessica Turner
BrainMap.org
Angie Laird
A behavioral paradigm in which subjects view three or more items.. After a brief delay a probe item is presented and subjects are asked to recall if the probe item was presented in the the previous list. Stimuli can be words, pictures, or abstract patterns. If the stimuli are letters, the task is coded as a Sternberg Task.
2006-10-11
Delayed_matching_to_sample_paradigm
BF_T0000346
Delayed_matching_to_sample_paradigm
uncurated
2006-06-01
In what way is this related to Happiness? Is there in fact a single underlying Cognitive_entity for which Happiness and Sadness are just either end of the quality gamut describing that entity as experienced by an individual (BB)? Can you experience both Happiness and Sadness simultaneously (BB)?
Bill Bug
uncurated
BIRN OTF
2006-06-01
C0233486
Sadness
Sadness
2006-10-11
C0232478
2006-10-11
Ingestion
Ingestion
Bill Bug
uncurated
2006-06-01
C0232478
Maryann Martone
BF_T0000150
2006-06-01
Sham_operated_control_group
2006-10-11
A subject group that has received an identical surgical procedure to the experimental group but without the treatment under study.
Sham_operated_control_group
Maryann Martone
uncurated
2006-05-15
2006-10-11
Transmission_electron_microscope
definition incomplete
2006-10-11
2006-05-15
uncurated
Electron_microscope
BIRN OTF
C0262879
Electron_microscope
C0262880
Maryann Martone
Transmission_electron_microscope
2006-05-15
uncurated
pentanedial
Maryann Martone
One of the protein CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS that is used as a disinfectant for sterilization of heat-sensitive equipment and as a laboratory reagent, especially as a fixative. (MSH)
Bill Bug
pentanedial; 5-carbon saturated chain with a highly reactive aldehyde group on each end; used as a protein crosslinking agent, fixative, disinfectant, and mutagen. (CSP)
Glutaraldehyde
A general purpose reagent is a chemical reagent that has general laboratory application, that is used to collect, prepare, and examine specimens from the human body for diagnostic histopathology, cytology, and hematology, and that is not labeled or otherwise intended for a specific diagnostic application. General purpose reagents include cytological preservatives, decalcifying reagents, fixatives and adhesives, tissue processing reagents, isotonic solutions, and pH buffers. (SPN)
2006-10-11
A crosslinking fixative. Glutaraldehdye is a pentanedial; 5-carbon saturated chain with a highly reactive aldehyde group on each end (MM).
C0017814
glutaral
glutardialdehyde
Glutaraldehyde
C0017814
uncurated
Memory
2006-05-15
uncurated
MeSH-UMLS
2006-10-11
Cognitive_process
uncurated
2006-05-15
Cognitive_process
BIRN OTF
Attention
Jessica Turner
2006-10-11
C0004268
The process of focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating. (MeSH)
Attention
BF_T0000216
2006-10-11
Memory
The cognitive process of encoding, storing and retrieving past experience
Jessica Turner
2006-05-15
2006-06-01
2006-10-11
BIRN OTF
Covert_braille_reading_paradigm
BrainMap.org
2006-10-11
Covert_braille_reading_paradigm
pending final vetting
Jessica Turner
A behavioral paradigm in which a subject reads aloud with fingers.
Angie Laird
2006-06-01
BF_T0000341
Brain Map lists only a Braille reading paradigm but BIRNLex is dividing this into overt and covert Braille reading paradigms
Covert_visual_reading_paradigm
uncurated
Covert_visual_reading_paradigm
BIRN OTF
2006-06-01
California_Verbal_Learning_Test
California_Verbal_Learning_Test
definition incomplete
BF_T0000220
2006-10-11
Brain Map uses this designtation only when letters are used as stimuli; however there is some confusion about whether other stimuli may be used in the Sternberg paradigm
Angie Laird
DMTS
A delayed matching-to-sample paradigm that uses letters or numbers as stimuli (Sternberg S. High-speed scanning in human memory. Science. 1966 Aug 5;153(736):652-4).
2006-10-11
pending final vetting
2006-06-01
BrainMap.org
BF_T0000359
moved under the new Item_recognition_paradigm class (BB).
Sternberg_paradigm
Sternberg_paradigm
Jessica Turner
Need to clarify what a Sternberg paradigm involves
delayed match-to-sample paradigm
Bill Bug
2006-06-01
curation complete
2006-10-11
Brett Peterson
C0002045
A well defined set of rules that can be expressed using formal mathematical expression and thereby implemented in a computing environment.
Algorithm
UMLS
Algorithm
Sensorimotor_paradigm
A behavioral paradigm that requires the subject respond to stimuli that are dissimilar to the majority of stimuli presented
2006-06-01
BF_T0000266
Sensorimotor_paradigm
curation complete
Jessica Turner
2006-10-11
Multiphoton_microscope
Optical microscope where fluorescence excitation is produced by two or more photons of light of longer wavelength that the fluorophore. On their own, these photons possess insufficient energy to excite the fluorophore but under certain conditions, the two photons can interact to produce excitation in a narrow focal plane.
2006-10-11
2006-05-15
Multiphoton_microscope
uncurated
Maryann Martone
BF_T0000028
Jessica Turner
Autobiographical_memory
2006-10-11
Memory that involves the conscious recall or recognition of one’s own life.
Autobiographical_memory
C0561843
2006-05-15
uncurated
2006-05-15
Ultrahigh_voltage_electron_microscope
Transmission electron microscope capable of operating at an accelerating voltage of > 1 MeV
2006-10-11
BIRN OTF
BF_T0000031
Ultrahigh_voltage_electron_microscope
uncurated
Tissue_section
2006-05-15
Maryann Martone
A sample of a specimen consisting of a thin plane produced through the use of a microtome or other cutting device, usually produced for the purposes of histological processing and/or microscopic examination.
uncurated
OBI_261
BF_T0000134
Tissue_section
2006-10-11
OBI_94
Specimen_fixation
2006-07-15
BF_T0000236
2006-07-15
MeSH
Specimen_fixation
pending final vetting
The technique of using FIXATIVES in the preparation of cytologic, histologic, or pathologic specimens for the purpose of maintaining the existing form and structure of all the constituent elements. (MeSH)
Maryann Martone
2006-06-01
Trail_making_test
Christine Fennema-Notestine
Trail_making_test
BF_T0000223
Is a neuropsychological assessment of conceptual abilities and visuo-motor sequencing. Part A measures subjects ability to draw lines to connect consecutively numbered circles on a work sheet. Part B measures subjects draw lines between consecutively numbered and lettered circles by alternating between the two sequences (e.g., 1-A-2-B-3-C ...).
2006-10-11
curation complete
uncurated
Microscope
C0181839
BIRN OTF
Microscope
An instrument used to obtain a magnified image of small objects and reveal details of structure not otherwise distinguishable.
2006-10-11
Imaging_instrument
BIRN OTF
uncurated
2006-05-15
Imaging_instrument
OBI_47
2006-10-11
UMLS
2006-05-15
BF_T0000034
An antibody produced by clones of cells such as those isolated after hybridization of activated B lymphocytes with neoplastic cells. These hybrids are often referred to as hybridomas. (MeSH)
uncurated
2006-05-15
Maryann Martone
2006-10-11
Monoclonal_antibody
Monoclonal_antibody
Immunoglobulin that is used as a reagent to localize a signal through an immunological reaction.
Antibody
BF_T0000132
Antibody
antibody used for immunocytochemical protocol
uncurated
Maryann Martone
2006-10-11
2006-05-15
2006-10-11
pending final vetting
BF_T0000231
The cognitive process of remembering/recollecting previously learned material without aid of any external cues.
2006-05-15
Christine Fennema-Notestine
Free_recall
Free_recall
2006-10-11
2006-07-15
uncurated
Participant in a research project, who may or may not be the principal investigator, who assumes the responsiblity for completion of a project. Responsibilities may include research design, performance of experiments or supervision of other experimenters and communication of results.
Project_leader
BF_T0000183
Project_leader
Maryann Martone
2006-05-15
2006-10-11
Intracellular_injection_protocol
Intracellular_injection_protocol
BIRN OTF
uncurated
Jessica Turner
Simple_saccade_paradigm
2006-06-01
Angie Laird
A behavioral paradigm in which a subject fixate on a target and are instructed to make a saccadic eye movement to a stimulus (modified from Brain Map by OTF)
This term is equivalent to "saccade paradigm" in Brain Map
BIRN OTF
2006-10-11
uncurated
BrainMap.org
2006-10-11
Anti_saccade_paradigm
Anti_saccade_paradigm
Anti-saccades paradigm
Jessica Turner
2006-06-01
BIRN OTF
Angie Laird
A behavioral paradigm in which subjects fixate a target and are instructed to make a saccade in the opposite direction of a stimulus (modified from Brain Map by OTF)
BF_T0000341
pending final vetting
Simple_saccade_paradigm
BrainMap.org
Auditory_oddball_paradigm
2006-10-11
2006-06-01
Auditory_oddball_paradigm
An oddball discrimination paradigm that involves responding to auditory stimuli that are dissimilar to the majority of auditory stimuli presented.
Jessica Turner
curation complete
uncurated
UMLS