Term Info

 

The Term Info window is a text-based ontology browser.  This window will display any relevant metadata about an ontology term selected in the Data Entry frame, such as:

Ontology - the name of the Ontology from which the term comes, in this case the Biological Process ontology from the Gene Ontology.

Term - the actual name of the term

ID - the official alphanumeric identifier for the term.  It is often presented in the format of a unique abbreviation for the ontology followed by a numeric identifier, separated with a colon (ie GO:0007605). 

Synonyms - many terms have synonyms.  These synonyms may be defined as having different scope, such as: Exact, Narrow, Broad, or Other.  If the synonym is from a particular categorization (such as an abbreviation, a chemical formula, a community standard like IUPAC, etc.), this will be indicated following the synonym in brackets.  If no synonyms are present, this section will not appear.

Definition - the definition for the term is displayed

Replacements - If a term is obsoleted, a replacement term is often recommended by the maintainers of the ontology, or at minimum other terms to consider are mentioned.  These will be listed with navigable links. 

 

Navigating an Ontology in Term Info

Each term in an ontology is related to at least one other term.  Those terms, and their relationships are displayed in the Term Info window as well.  In the example above, the term sensory perception of sound is a child of sensory perception of mechanical stimulus.  Each term is a hyperlink.  Clicking on these terms will load that new information into the Term Info window.  If I were to select the sensory perception of mechanical stimulus link, the Term Info window would look like:

and if I move the slider to see the rest of the window, I will see a link from where we just came: sensory perception of sound