8 Data Nodes

A Data Node denotes a biological entity that forms a node in a pathway. We have two categories of Data Node Types: Molecular DataNodes and Concept DataNodes.

Object Panel options for Data Nodes

Figure 0.1: Object Panel options for Data Nodes

8.1 Molecular DataNodes

8.1.1 GeneProduct

An entity representing any product of a given gene, including DNA, RNA and Protein. This is the most generic representation of a gene-based biomolecule and is useful when more than one representation might be useful in the given context

8.1.2 Metabolite

An entity representing a metabolite, including chemical compounds that participate in or are produced by metabolic reactions, but also other chemical compounds that participate in a pathway otherwise.

8.1.3 Protein

A biomolecular polymer of amino acids, translated from mRNA.

8.1.4 DNA

An entity representing a DNA polymer.

8.1.5 RNA

An entity representing a RNA peptide, including mRNA, miRNA, etc. This is commonly used to explicitly represent mRNA transcripts (excluding DNA or protein forms) or other RNA species, like miRNA, exRNA, lncRNA, etc

8.1.6 Complex (deprecated)

The Complex Data Node Type is deprecated. Its use was similar to that of Alias.

8.2 Concept DataNodes

8.2.1 Pathway

A biological process representing a set of interactions and relationships among genes, proteins, metabolites, and other factors in the context of cellular compartments, tissues and organisms.

8.2.2 Disease

8.2.3 Phenotype

8.2.4 Alias

An Alias is a special type of Data Node which can represent a Group pathway element (or other entity). Please see Aliases for more information!

8.2.5 Event

8.2.6 CellNode

8.2.7 Organ

8.2.8 Undefined

An unspecified biological entity or factor. Should only be used if the type is truly unknown or is different from the ones covered by other data node types.