Terminology Service for NFDI4Health
material entity
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000040
A material entity is an entity that exists in full during the length of time of its existence, persists through this time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts. For example a heart, a human, a fly, a microarray.
Term info
Label
material entity
Synonyms
- material type
ArrayExpress label
sample factor
EFO URI
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0001434
example of usage
A heart, a human, a fly, a microarray.
has alternative id
http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#MaterialEntity
organizational class
true
source definition
An independent continuant [snap:IndependentContinuant] that is spatially extended whose identity is independent of that of other entities and can be maintained through time. Note: Material entity [snap:MaterialEntity] subsumes object [snap:Object], fiat object part [snap:FiatObjectPart], and object aggregate [snap:ObjectAggregate], which assume a three level theory of granularity, which is inadequate for some domains, such as biology.
term editor
James Malone