incubator
IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/Incubator
Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/biopharma/BiopharmaEquipment/
SubClass Of: engineered system
Class Hierarchy
owl:Thing › bfo:entity › bfo:continuant › bfo:independent continuant › bfo:material entity › bfo:object aggregate › system › engineered system › incubator
Definition
engineered system designed to maintain controlled environmental conditions within an enclosed chamber for material entities placed within that chamber
Explanatory Notes
1) Incubators may regulate environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, CO₂, oxygen, or light conditions, depending on their design. 2) In cultivation or storage contexts, incubators provide environmental control around material entities placed inside the chamber, such as flasks, plates, bags, tubes, vials, or the materials contained in them. 3) An incubator should be distinguished from the vessel or other artifact that directly holds the material. For example, a T-flask contains the cell culture, while the incubator maintains the surrounding controlled chamber environment. 4) Incubators differ from bioreactors in how the controlled cultivation environment is provided. An incubator controls the surrounding chamber environment for vessels or other material entities placed inside it. A bioreactor controls process conditions for the culture within the bioreactor vessel, for example through agitation, aeration, pH control, dissolved oxygen control, or temperature control.
Examples
- CO₂ incubator for mammalian cell culture. A stainless-steel laboratory incubator with HEPA filtration and automated humidity control, maintaining 37 °C and 5 percent CO₂, used for cultivating CHO cells in research and production.
Counter-Examples
- a shaking water bath used to heat and mix samples in tubes, because it does not provide the enclosed and regulated chamber environment characteristic of an incubator; a bioreactor, because it provides controlled conditions directly for material within its integrated bioreactor vessel rather than maintaining a chamber environment around separately placed vessels
Adapted From
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000136 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubator_(culture) and https://documents.thermofisher.com/TFS-Assets/LED/manuals/7053110r9-EN-3100-Series-Water-Jacket.pdf
Primitive Class
This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.
Primitive Rationale
There are insufficient constructs to create a set of necessary and sufficient conditions
Formal Axioms
First-Order Logic Axioms
Incubator(x) → EngineeredSystem(x)
Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms
if x is an ‘incubator’ then x is an ‘engineered system’
Description Logic
SubClassOf: constr:EngineeredSystem
constr:Incubator DisjointWith: constr:ChromatographySystem