viability status

IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/ViabilityStatus

Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/biopharma/BiopharmaMaterial/

SubClass Of: bfo:quality

Class Hierarchy

owl:Thing β€Ί bfo:entity β€Ί bfo:continuant β€Ί bfo:specifically dependent continuant β€Ί bfo:quality β€Ί viability status

Direct subclasses:

Definition

quality of a biological material entity by virtue of whether that entity is alive and capable of maintaining or recovering relevant physiological activity

Explanatory Notes

Viability status is used as the individual-level parent quality for qualitative states such as viable and dead. It should be distinguished from viability ratio, which is a population-level ratio determined by the number of viable members relative to the total number of relevant members.

Examples

  • the viability of a CHO cell classified as viable in a FACS assay using propidium iodide exclusion; the viability of a T cell classified as viable in a FACS assay using 7-AAD exclusion;

Adapted From

  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000169

Primitive Class

This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.

Primitive Rationale

There are insufficient constructs for creating a set of necessary and sufficient conditions

Formal Axioms

First-Order Logic Axioms

ViabilityStatus(x) β†’ Quality(x) ∧ βˆƒm (MaterialEntity(m) ∧ qualityOf(x, m))

Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms

if x is a β€˜viability status’ then x is a β€˜quality’ that is the β€˜quality of’ some β€˜material entity’

Description Logic

constr:ViabilityStatus βŠ‘ bfo:quality

constr:ViabilityStatus βŠ‘ βˆƒ constr:qualityOf .bfo:material_entity

SubClassOf: bfo:quality

SubClassOf: constr:qualityOf some bfo:material_entity


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