How to represent a gene's biotype

[puja-trivedi]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• I want to represent the concept of a gene's function/classification (also known as a gene's Biotype).

Describe the solution you'd like.

• Add biotype as an attribute of biolink:Gene
• Add a class biolink:BioType

What working group (or team) did this request originate from? The need for representing this type of data originated from the MIT Senseable Intelligence Group.

[sierra-moxon]

Hi @puja-trivedi -

biolink:Entity has a biolink:type slot that holds a uriorcurie (preferably an ontology ID) that can be used to describe the type or subtype of the entity.

Will this work for your use case?

[satra]

@sierra-moxon - it seems biolink:type is simply rdf:type, which for Gene would be the class it belongs to, whereas i think @puja-trivedi was asking how to encode some aspect of the function of a Gene.