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Table 1 The upper classes of IDOMAL

From: IDOMAL: an ontology for malaria

Class

Number of terms

Contents summary

condition

45

clinical features of malaria host (e.g. symptoms and signs, etc.)

disposition

77

infectious disease (malaria - > transmission, progression - > clinical manifestation, etc.

fiat process part

121

mostly vector-related "processes"

object

1148

a) abiotic objects (chemical compounds, including insecticides, antimalarials), screening material, environmental/geographic features, etc.

  

b) biotic objects (anatomical structures, host -, vector - and parasite species, etc.)

object aggregate

89

populations (host, vector, parasite), protein complexes

process

1320

processes of malaria, host, vector, parasites, populations, combination therapy, diagnostic tests, etc.

process boundary

2

 

quality

253

qualities of malaria, environment, host, vector, parasites and populations

role

576

roles of biological and chemical substances (e.g. drugs, enzymes, factors, etc.), parasites, breeding sites

spatiotemporal region

6

 

temporal region

5

 
  1. The table lists the upper classes of the ontology and includes, only for the heavily populated ones, a summary of the main contents of the class. The numbers denote the number of terms found in each one of the classes.