Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Expertise
A resource as an expert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert) who can answer questions, provide technical assistance, etc.
A resource that provides data from any biomaterial sample that was given to the service provider. This can also be a service that performs an experiment such as electrophysiological examination of LTP in a transgenic mouse. Viewing this as an input/output relationship the input would be a tissue or an animal and the output would be data.
Biomaterial Analysis Service
A resource that provides long-term storage for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use, and the ability to retrieve backed up content in the event of a disaster that impacts the system in question,
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Backup Archives and Disaster Recovery
Resource
An entity that provides access (either in the open community or within an organization) to material, intellectual, financial, technological, or electronic means of carrying out research and development.
Lexical Analysis
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that converts a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens.
Web Posting
Resources that are disseminated on the Internet via HTTP, FTP and other web protocols.
Biochemical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry) supplies provided for a laboratory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory)
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Biochemical Supply Resource
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Software development
Processing Pipeline
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that enable execution processing.
Methods used in the medical specialty of surgery, as defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_procedure
Surgical Procedure
A resource that provides a network model that includes nodes and edges based on physical interactions between the entities represented by the nodes.
Interaction Network
Sequence Alignment
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that compare two or more genomic sequences and provides summary information.
Data Visualization
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that present information as an image.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that use controllers in the performance of a simulation.
Controllers
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that perform detection, extraction, representation and analysis of cortical brain structure.
Cortical Modeling
Resource that provides access to Software that contains data encoded in binary form and contains instructions for the computer to perform a given set of tasks.
Binary Executable
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides access to or support for a system of interconnected computers able to share information.
Network and Communication
A data object that has infinite numbers of possible values. Quantitative data is often continuous such as weight, blood pressure.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Continuous Data
Visualization
Resource that provides access to tools for graphical, interactive, multimodal and multidimensional data and result visualization.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to specifically model RNA structure and function.,
RNA Model
A resource that provides access to a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
Book
Cross-Sectional Viewer
Resource that provides access to data visualization tools relying on displays of lower-dimensional cross-sectional (hyper)planes.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that general data transformations.
Data Transform
Resource that provides access to general (hyper)volume visualization tools (e.g., volume rendering).
Manifold Viewer
A resource the provides access to papers and/or talk and poster abstracts that are presented at a conference.
Conference Proceeding
Flow Cytometry Cell Sorting Facility
A facility or core devoted to analysis of cells by suspension of the cells in a stream of fluid and passing them by an electronic detection apparatus (flow cytometer).
pending final vetting: consider changing name to Flow Cytometry Facility
Graph Viewers
General graph visualization resources
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
A resource that provides access to instructions regarding how software operates or how to use it.
Software Documentation
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides support for computer-related services such as database hosting and backup and disaster recovery.
Computational Service
Code Profiler
A resource that provides a performance analysis tool that measures the behavior of a program as it executes, particularly the frequency and duration of function calls. The profiling process helps to determine which subroutines (or just snippets of code) take longest to execute and which subroutines are called most often. Code profilers are used when you suspect that some part of your code is called very often and maybe there is a need to optimize it, which could significantly improve the overall performance. Profilers use a wide variety of techniques to collect data, including hardware interrupts, code instrumentation, instruction set simulation, operating system hooks, and performance counters.
Resource that provides access to software distribution that access to a computer program file or collection of files.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Software Distribution
A resource that provides access to structured data that is formatted according to the Resource Description Framework, a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web.
RDF Data
Computational Biology
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology
A collection of tables, charts, or plates to illustrate anatomical structures.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Anatomic Atlas
Proteomics
The large-scale study of proteins
PDE Solver
A resource that provides access to a tool or function that generates the solution of a partial differential equation subject to appropriate parameters and initial or boundary conditions.
Data Compression
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that reduces the bits (information units) needed to encode the data.
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Clinical Charts
**previously was called Clinical_Charts_eg_Demographics
we think this should be deleted
A facility or core that provides services and equipment related to exercise physiology.
Exercise Study Facility
Text Mining
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that derives information from free text.
Next generation of High throughput DNA sequencer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing)
Next Generation Sequencer
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
A physiology facility devoted to nutrition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition) research
Nutrition Facility
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Provenance and Intellectual Property
News
Resource that provides news and RSS feed resources
A data resource that delivers its' data by way of a 'database', which involves a structured data store and interrogation methods for data selection.
Data Repository
Database
Thesis
A resource that provides access to a document created to summarize research findings associated with the completion of an academic degree.
Resource that provides access to educational resources (incl. book, magazines, audio, video, digital streams, etc.),
Education
Multibody Dynamics
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to calculate the time course of multibody dynamics.
A resource which provides access to tools or functions that compute linear calculations on vector spaces.
Linear Algebra Tool
pending final vetting: propose to deprecate, but replacement term needed since this term is used in annotation
Programmatic Access
defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicology
Toxicology
Finite Element Model
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to generate approximate solutions of partial differential equations.
A resource that provides access to educational materials or events, such as courses, workshops or graduate programs.
Training Resource
As per alignment with NIF resource type hierarchy.
Version Information
Molecular Model
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that calculate time course of physico-chemical model that representation of a molecule or of the arrangement of molecules in a solid substance, with the purpose of visualizing some of its properties, such as the nature and relative positions of its atoms, the chemical bonds between them, the three-dimensional shape of the molecule, and how its shape can change by bending or rotation of the bonds.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
License and Terms for Use
A license that describes the constraints for using the resource.
Protein-Protein Interaction
A resource that provides a description of the interaction network of proteins.
Course Material
Resource that provides access to educational material that can be used to disseminate information about a course of study.
Graph Viewer
Resource that provides access to general graph visualization methods.
Flatfile Distribution
A resource that provides access to structured data that is found in separate, unlinked files that is accessible via the internet.
Resource that provides access to tools for the representation, modeling, analysis and visualization of biological patterns out of data.
Pattern Recognition
Semantic Network
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides access to documents describing an account, event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.
Report
Toolkit
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that deliver software or application in toolkit fashion, whereby the kit components can be used independently of each other, or included as part of another program
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
An table that provides a workspace insulated from vibration.
Vibration Isolation Table
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Molecular Trajectory Data
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides access to kinetic information, usually quantitative, regarding biological system components over time.
Fabrication Facility
A facility core devoted to creating, manufacturing, building or assembling resources used in scientific research.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Structured Data
A resource that distributes data that is organized in a purposeful manner
Resource that provides access to an interactive visualization tool that represents variables in a 2-D graph as colors.
Heat Map
Document Structure Parsing
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that analyze and report on document structure.
X-Ray Crystallography Facility
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A molecular biology facility devoted to x-ray crystallography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_crystallography)
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that are used to enable user input of data and display corresponding information.
Interactive Tool
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An instrument that is used to administer a drug.
Drug Delivery Device
Imaging
pending final vetting: rename this Imaging_Software (at least as it occurs in Software tree)?
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable visualization methods for imaging data.
Biostatistics
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biostatistics
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used model a molecular, cellular, organ, or population network.
Network Interaction Model
Molecular Trajectories
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that generate network maps of biological signaling networks based on applying logic and statistics to observations/hypothesis.
Signaling Network Reconstruction
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing
Nursing
Management and communications within the laboratory setting (http://www.umuc.edu/programs/undergrad/certificates/lab_mgmt.shtml)
Research Lab Management
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to model combined biomechanical and neurological system.
Neuromuscular Model
A resource that provides access to facts and/or information, often in the form of rules that describe the knowledge in a logically consistent manner.
Knowledgebase
Clinical Data
Any type of data obtained in the course of caring for humans.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Non Computational Service
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Biomedical Resources which are not predominantly computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing) in nature.
Calorimeter
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
A measurement device that is used to calculate the heat flow of a chemical reaction or physical change.
Meshing
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that create meshes in biological systems.
A measurement (or image acquisition) device that visualizes detailed internal structure and limited function of the body, using a powerful magnetic field to align the nuclear magnetization of (usually) hydrogen atoms in water in the body.
MRI Scanner
pending final vetting: location in hierarchy and harmonize with OBI/eagle-i
Averaging and Agglomeration
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs signal processing by repeated measures of the signal and then calculates the expected value of the data set.
Activity
Activity of interest that may be related to a BRO:Resource.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that search, sort, or index on binary or textual formatted data.
Searching Sorting and Indexing
Pressure Regulator
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Network model
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Reagent Resource
A material resource that provides access to reagents, such as antibodies or drugs. Included in this definition are sites designed to work with individual service providers of reagents such as ExactAntigen who do not sell antibodies directly, but provide a catalog with pricing information for most commercial and noncommercial antibody providers. Note, reagents may be of organismal origin or not, but must be classified as macromolecules or molecules.
Data Exploration
Resource that provides access to a visualization tool that is able to display data as an image or graphical representation.
Narrative Resource
A resource that provides a literary work, book, story, textual description, or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
Work with NIF to define blog and wiki.
Data Analysis Software
A resource that provides access to software or application that is used to analyze, model, and transform data with the goal of testing a research hypothesis, highlighting useful information, suggesting conclusions, or supporting decision making.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to calculate the estimate of side chains of conformations in biomolecular configurations.
Prediction of Side-Chain Conformations
A microscope (device to magnify small objects) in which objects are lit directly by white light.
Light Microscope
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkit that analyze biological graphs.
Graph Analysis
Metabolomics Facility
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A molecular biology facility devoted to metabolomics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolomics)
Symbolic and Analytic Model
Resource that provides access to methods of analysis and modeling that have closed-form analytical mathematical representations.
Data Normalization
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that reduces systematic sources of variation from data.
Federal Funding Resource
A funding resource where money is obtained from the central government.
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Material supplies provided for research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research) purposes
Research Supplies
Outlier Detection and Removal
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that perform quality assurance on data to detect and/or remove outliers.
Epidemiology
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiolgy
Disaster Recovery Service
A resource that provides the ability to retrieve archived content in the event of a disaster that impacts the system in question.
A resource that provides any kind written item, as a book, article, or letter, esp. of a factual or informative nature.
Document
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A facility or core devoted to localizing antigens (eg. proteins) in cells of a tissue section through antibodies binding specifically to antigens.
Immunohistochemistry Facility
Deep Parsing
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that detect relationships between language constructs.
General (hyper)volume visualization tools (e.g., volume rendering).
Manifold Viewers
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology
Physiology
Data Service
A resource that provides data management and specialized use.
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy
A resource or expertise relating to psychometrics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics)
Psychometrics Expertise
pending final vetting: refine definition
A license that grants the right of usage from a third party distributor to the end user.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Pass Through License
As defined in http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/facility
Facility Core
A resource that provides instruments, technologies, facilities, and/or expert support for a specific area of research.
pending final vetting: suggest to re-name to Core Facility, discuss how to manage change.
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Scripting Language and Environment
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that perform image pre-processing routines that are required as preliminary steps before standard image processing, analysis and visualization take place.
Pre-Processing
Data distribution that does not have a data model or has one that is not easily usable by a computer program.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Unstructured Data
Language Summarization
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that creates a shortened version of text.
As per alignment with NIF resource type hierarchy.
Resource that provides access usually through repositories or the Internet to computer executables, libraries, plugins, or source code.
Software
A resource that provides access to the ability to generate antibodies that bind to a specific antigen.
Antibody Production
Software Development Tool
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable generic tools for software development, engineering and deployment.
Deprecated Resource
Former subclasses of BRO:Resource that have been deprecated and their usage is not recommended.
Discrete data that contains many variables.
High Dimensional Data
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Microtome
An instrument used to cut very fine sections of material.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
pending final vetting: review definition
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that calculate the time course of biomolecular configurations and their classification.
Molecular Modeling and Classification
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Connectivity Matrix
A matrix is a subset of a network that contains node-edge-node connections of interest and are represented as a matrix.
A resource that provides services to ensure research is conducted in accordance with environmental and safety standards (e.g. laboratory safety procedures, radiation safety procedures, disposal protocols, etc).
Environmental Health and Safety Resource
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Summarization
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that creates a shortened version of text.
An educational resource that is interactive and teaches by example.
Tutorial
A resource that provides data related to any kind of measurement designed to describe an observable characteristic or trait.
Phenotypic Measurement
Parsing
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that analyze text to detect language constructs or tokens such as noun phrases and verbs.
A resource that provides clinical care data at the level of an individual.
Individual Human Data
Area of Research
Area of research that may be related to a BRO:Resource.
Pharmacokinetics Pharmacodynamics Expertise
pending final vetting: refine definition
A resource or expertise relating to pharmacokinetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacokinetics) and pharmacodynamics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacodynamics)
A resource that provides space for and access to a database.
Database Hosting
Graphical Composition
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable graphical composition of applications.
pending final vetting: propose definition
Computational Hosting
Discrete data that is composed of individual data points as compared to.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Scalar Data
A resource that provides image data consisting of length and width, but no depth.
Two D Image
Compiler
A resource that provides a computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code). The most common reason for wanting to transform source code is to create an executable program. A \\u201ccompiler\\u201d is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a lower level language (e.g., assembly language or machine language), and is likely to perform many or all of the following operations: lexical analysis, pre-processing, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation, and code optimization.
Named Entity Recognition
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that attempts to identify and classify atomic elements in text into predefined categories such as the organizations, locations, expressions of times, quantities, and names of people.
A resource that provides data storage and maintenance, such as a database that accepts submissions of similar data for storage and use. For example, the cell centered database (CCDB) encourages submissions of anatomical images that will increase its' holdings.
Data Storage Service
Statistical Text Analysis
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs statistical tests on text corpora.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
A neurosurgical device that supplies a controlled alternating-current voltage to two electrodes that are applied to a patient.
Stimulator
Wavelet Transform
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs multi-dimensional wavelet transform.
A molecular biology facility devoted to the study of genomics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics)
Genomics Facility
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A resource that provides access to data from individual experiments.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Experimental Measurement
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A facility or core devoted to developing animal research models (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_models)
Animal Models Facility
Root Finder
A resource that provides access to a tool or function that finds a value x such that f(x) = 0, for a given function f. Such an x is called a root of the function f.
Continuum Method Simulation
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that uses all data points in a simulation.
Resource Description
Seminar Series
A resource that provides presentations from experts within their field.
Framework solutions that enable scientists to work smarter and ultimately increase the number of scientific discoveries made, as well as decrease the time to publish results. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology)
Research IT
Biospecimen Management
Activity related to the creation, use, or maintenance of a biorepository (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorepository)
Named Entity Normalization
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that map the recognized entities to unambiguous references to real world entities.
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy
Document Retrieval
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that provides an electronic document or file in response to a query.
Server
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides any combination of hardware or software designed to provide services to clients as defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)
Protein Interaction Modeling
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to model protein interactions.
A molecular biology facility devoted to PCR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR)
pending final vetting: Refine definition
PCR Facility
pending final vetting: refine definition
Grant Preparation Expertise
A resource or expertise relating to grant preparation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_(money))
Standalone Application
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Resource that provides access to software distribution that does not have any dependencies. Software distributed in this manner can be run on a desktop computer.
Social Networking
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
A resource that provides guidelines and information related to research involving humans with the aim to protect the rights and welfare of research subjects. Such resources could supply consent forms, patient questionnaires, assist in ethical protocol designs, host seminars on conducting human studies, etc.
Human Studies Compliance Resource
Computer-Instrumentation Interface
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
A part of an instrument that provides for human user input to operate the instrument.
Hosting
A resource that provides a server for data or programs that another computer can access by means of a network.
A resource that provides calculating or processing over a data input, such as interpreting EEG data. Note, this may include human and/or computer expertise, so that a software tool may be included as a data computation service.
Data Computation Service
A resource that provides access to tools or function that are used to reconstruct 2D and 3D images based on projections of an object.
Image Reconstruction
Biomolecular Interaction Facility
A molecular biology facility devoted to the study of interactions between molecules in biology.
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Clinical Studies
or resources that help investigators do clinical studies or trials, including, epidemiology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology), outcome development, physiological human studies, interventional trials, etc
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that searches documents for information within the document and metadata about the document.
Information Retrieval
A resource that provides aid or assistance with a technology product.
Technical Support
pending final vetting: refine definition
A measurement (or image acquisition) device that produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. It detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting
radionuclide (tracer), which is introduced into the body on a biologically active molecule.
pending final vetting: location in hierarchy and harmonize with OBI/eagle-i
PET Scanner
Biositemaps Information Model
Reagent Manufacture
A resource that manufactures a product that could have a role as reagent. Examples include producing antibodies to a particular antigen (Charles River custom antibody service) or designing drugs which fit a receptor.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that can develop access to a connected group of pages on the World Wide Web regarded as a single entity, usually maintained by one person or organization and devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics.
Website
Resource Integration Component
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable integration of diverse resources.
Shape Analysis
Resource that provides access to tools representation, modeling, analysis and visualization of biological shape out of data.
An instrument that increases the output of another instrument.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Amplifier
Proposed children:
- Bayesian network
- Correlation network
- Pathway network
- Causality network
e.g. Sage Bionetworks will be publishing exactly these types of models.
A resource that provides access to a computational model representing objects and their relationships.
Network Model
A resource the provides access to a publicly available document that is generated by a governing entity.
Government Publication
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Modular Component
Resource that provides access to a software component.
Proteomics Facility
A molecular biology facility devoted to proteomics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteomics)
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Animal Care Facility
A facility or core devoted to the care of research animals.
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Deprecate
Network Editor
Integration and Interoperability Tools
These are resources that allow tool interoperability and resource integration and data mediation.
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
The dimensions of the array in computer memory used to store the data acquired during a pulse sequence. Related to the number of phase-encoding steps, frequency-encoding points and number of slices.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Matrix
A resource that provides access to tools or functions that model biological processes that involves random sampling in the algorithm.
Monte Carlo Simulation
Regulatory Compliance
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_compliance
Calendar Schedule and Resource Management
A resource that provides functionality to allocate resources based on a method of timekeeping.
Immune Monitoring Facility
A facility or core devoted to assessing effects on the human immune system (immunogenicity, immunocompetence, immune reconstitution, immunotoxicity, and immunopathology) of particular importance in the study of disease and therapeutics.
A resource that provides the entire environment (applications, servers, network) that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An SDE typically includes an integrated development environment (IDE, comprising source code editor, compiler, build automation, debugger), requirement management tools, design modeling tools, documentation generation tools, code analysis tools, and so on.
Software Development Environment
Graph Alignment
Resource that provides access to a graph algorithm that compares the similarity of graphs to each other.
Resource that provides access to software or application that perform numerical analysis or other canonical computational methods that act either on experimental or synthetic data.
Algorithm
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Microarray Scanner
An instrument which acquires images of fluorescence (induced with lasers) from labeled molecules on the surface of the microarray chip.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that model or simulate interaction between biological components such as genes, proteins, cells, organs, populations.
Interaction Modeling
Inhomogeneity Correction
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs methods for correction of image intensities where non-biological and non-physiological drift or noise is introduced by the scanning hardware.
Statistical Package
A resource that provides access to self-contained tools, resources and packages for statistical modeling and data analysis (e.g., R, SOCR, SAS, SPSS, SYSTAT, etc.).
Statistical Analysis
A resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits for basic statistical modeling and analysis.
Provenance
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
physico chemical models
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
A resource that provides the manufacture of a piece of hardware. An example is producing a made to order microarray chip.
Instrument Manufacture
Resource that provides access to an ontology and development management tool that identifies differences between two ontologies.
Ontology Diff and Alignment
The study of all the genes of a cell, tissue, or organism at the DNA (genotype) or mRNA (transcriptome) levels.
Genomics
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables software or application integration using graphical methods.
Graphical Integration
Ontology
A resource that provides access to a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts, used to reason about the objects within that domain.
Pattern Inference Algorithm
A resource that provides access to tools or functions that derive reduced significant information about experimental or synthetic data.
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables an interactive software development tool that runs on different computer operating systems.
Cross-Platform Tool
Deprecated Data Resource
Created in BRO v2.7
Former subclasses of BRO:Data_Resource that have been deprecated and their usage is not recommended.
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediatrics
Pediatrics
A resource that provides a software environment created to investigate the quality of the product or service under test, with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate. This includes, but is not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs.
Code Testing Framework
Homology Modeling
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that uses a proteins amino acid sequence and an experimental three-dimensional structure of a related homologous protein to generate an atomic-resolution model of the protein.
Pharmacokinetics Pharmacodynamics
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacokinetics and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacodynamics
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used model a system using or described by wavelets.
Wavelet Model
Bibliographic Resource
A resource that contains information about or access to published sources.
Registration
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs methods for co-registration, alignment and warping of imaging and hyper-imaging data.
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that is able to alter information.
Data Editor
Information Resource
A resource that provides data, knowledge or narrative.
As per alignment with NIF resource type hierarchy.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An instrument for measuring alternating or varying electric current in terms of current and voltage.
Oscillograph
Object Database
A resource that provides access to a database that represents information in the form of objects.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that perform spatial and frequency-type data transformations.
Spectral Transform
Resource that provides access to Community and User Interaction Systems, educational resources and web-services.
Dissemination Vehicle
Data Transforms
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
General data transformations
Interactive Network Analysis
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that analyze networks interactively with a user.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that model the processes of a cell.
Cell Model
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Microscope
An instrument used to obtain a magnified image of small objects and reveal details of structure not otherwise distinguishable.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Electrode Holder
An instrument that provides a means of coupling fluid-filled glass microelectrodes to a patch clamp amplifier for the measurement of electrical currents or potentials. Holders are available in straight angle configurations made out of polycarbonate or Teflon, and usually feature a silver/ silver chloride pellet attached to a BNC-compatible pin/ending. A suction port is standard for holders meant for patch clamp recordings, but are not included in holders meant for sharp electrode recordings or extracellular recordings.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Power Conditioning Unit
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that has mechanisms for sharing information between members of a group working on a shared project.
Communication and Collaborative Work
Resource that provides access to methods of analysis or generation of networks and graph data structures.
Graph Algorithm
Deprecated Activity
Former subclasses of activity:Activity that have been deprecated and their usage is not recommended.
Sequence Similarity Searching
Resource that provides access to tools or functions that perform similarity searching involving biological sequences.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An instrument to place and store other instruments.
Rack
Molecular and Cellular Data
A resource that provides data related to molecular and cellular properties and their relationship to macroscopic parameters.
Micromanipulator
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An instrument that is used to physically interact with a sample under a microscope, where a level of precision of movement is necessary that cannot be achieved by the unaided human hand.
A resource that provides a service the output of which is a material object. That material object might be an instrument, a chemical, or an animal.
Material Service
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that involves atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a period of time by approximations of known physics.
Molecular Dynamics
Numerical Integrator
Resource that provides access to tools or functions that calculate the numerical value of a definite integral.
A resource that provides access to a database that comprises a normalized data set constructed according to a specific entity-relation data model.
Relational Database
Online Support
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable help via internet accessible material.
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Numerical Integrators
Knowledge Extraction
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that recognize and report on entities and relations in text corpora.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that model or simulate biological processes using computational meshes.
Mesh Model
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that analysis multi-dimensional spatio-temporal data.
Signal Processing
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to model physiological processes of the cardiovascular system.
Cardiovascular Model
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs exploratory data analysis methods.
EDA
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to visualize a configuration of biomolecules in space and time.
Molecular Visualization
Software Technology Protocol
A resource that provides access to information on how to implement and use a computer program.
A resource or expertise in research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_(natural_sciences)) or clinical-trial protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial_protocol)
Protocol Development Expertise
pending final vetting: refine definition
Data Acquisition Software
Resource that provides access to software or application that support collection of real-world conditions and converts these to a numerical representation that can be processed by a computer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_acquisition.
pending final vetting: review term in comparison to siblings data analysis software and data processing software
pending final vetting: provide definition
Volume Model Scene Data
A resource that provides access to structured data that is in XML, a self-descriptive format to store and transport data.
XML Data
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to classify protein shape and parameters.
Structure-Based Protein Classification
A resource that provides access to reports that are published journals
Journal Article
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that enable integration and interoperability tools that facilitate communication between software tools via graphical workflow pipelines.
pending final vetting: review definition
Graphical Processing Workflow Environments
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that perform alter the spatial-temporal spectral content of data.
Filtering
Numerical Model
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that generate solutions from a numerical model.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to provide quantitative data on the molecules being analyzed such as molecular weight, abundance or purity.
Analysis of Gel-Electrophoresis
Tag as a resource for a specific Institutional Review Board (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Review_Board)
IRB
Data Resource
A resource that provides individual facts, statistics or items of information.
Mechanical Simulation
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that model mechanical forces.
White Paper
A publication that is an authoritative report or guide that often addresses issues and how to solve them.
A resource that provides items such as reagents, instruments, tissue samples or organisms for use in a laboratory.
Laboratory Supply Resource
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Radioisotopes Facility
A molecular biology facility devoted to radioisotopes or radionuclides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotopes)
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that calculate solutions to physiological processes that involve chemical kinetics, compartments, or stochastic interactions.
Physico-Chemical Model
Intellectual Property Resource
A resource that provides legal counsel regarding contracts and agreements between an institution and various external parties. These resources may provide legal seminars along with training materials regarding intellectual property.
A resource that provides image data consisting of length, width and depth.
Three D Image
A measurement (or image acquisition) device that generates a three-dimensional image of the inside of an object from a series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation.
pending final vetting: location in hierarchy and harmonize with OBI/eagle-i
CT Scanner
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy
Image Processing
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs image post processing (i.e., excludes image generation).
A resource that provides access to physical materials like tissue samples or organisms. For example, the IMSR enables acquisition of a transgenic mouse or cell line. Note, for the sake of simplicity we have excluded molecules of organismal origin from this category as these can be manufactured chemically and have included them under the reagent category (eg. antibodies, toxins).
Biomaterial Supply Resource
A facility or core devoted to the act or practice of opening a vein by incision or puncture to remove blood.
Phlebotomy Facility
A resource that provides monetary support in the form of grants, contracts, or gifts for research, training, or education.
pending final vetting: are more subclasses needed, e.g. Foreign_Funding_Resource and Local_Funding_Resource
Funding Resource
As per alignment with NIF resource type hierarchy.
Numerical Methods
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
General numerical modeling and computational tools (ala, GAMS: http://gams.nist.gov/)
A resource that provides a simplified or symbolic representation representing the states of a system or network over time.
Dynamic Model
Segmentation
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that classify sub-regions of images.
pending final vetting: refine definition
Cloud computing
Integrated Hosting
Interactive Tools
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Clinical Research Data
A resource that provides data on clinical trials and outcomes studies.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that calculates mass spectra sequence and related data from experimental mass spectra data.
Mass Spectra Identification
Community Structure Analysis
Resource that provides access to a graph algorithm that identifies densely interlinked nodes in the graph.
Instrument
pending final vetting: review scope of BRO for child terms
A resource that provides scientific instruments such as microscopes, amplifiers or dissection tools. For example, Grass Instruments is a site that sells amplifiers and other equipment useful for electrophysiology. From NIFSTD
An instrument to heat or cool an environment.
Temperature Control Unit
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Vibrotome
An instrument for sectioning tissue samples that uses a vibrating razor blade to cut the sample.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Electrode Puller
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An instrument to make micropipettes.
A resource that provides data related to the measurement of interaction between molecules of any type.
Molecular Interaction
Cross-Language Wrapping
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables an interactive software development tool that creates language bindings.
Hyperbolic Graph
Resource that provides access to hyperbolic space (hierarchical) graph/tree visualization tools.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that is used to model or simulate biological structures, kinetics, function, structure, random events, and genotype or phenotype in time and space.
Modeling and Simulation
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that allows insertions, deletions, or mismatches in nodes/edges.
Approximate Graph Alignment
Research Funding
Activity related to learning about, securing, and managing money to support research
Gene Therapy
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
Tutorials
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Portal
pending final vetting: review NIF hierarchy for source of children terms.
A Resource that provides a point of access to information on the World Wide Web, presenting information from diverse sources in a unified way.
Activity related to gathering and inventory of resources, e.g., biositemaps
Resource Inventory
A resource that provides data from any material sample that was given to the service provider. This can also be a service which performs an experiment such as electrophysiological examination of LTP magnitude in the presence of a drug given to the service provider. Viewing this as an input/output relationship the input would involve a drug and the output would be data such as a dose response curve.
Material Analysis Service
Outcomes Research
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcomes_research
A resource that provides access through the Internet or archive to formatted digital or textual data.
Data Storage Repository
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables a software development tool that combines software documentation with generating source code.
Integration
A facility that provides resources for the development and growth of self-renewing cells that are capable of differentiation into a diverse range of specialized cells.
Stem Cell Therapy Facility
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An automated mechanical machine for creating microarrays
Robotic Arrayer
A facility or core for generating recombinant vectors containing a functioning copy of a human gene.
Gene Therapy Facility
Structured Knowledge Resource
A resource that provides access to collection of data records arranged according to some semantic framework. The semantic framework may be minimally expressive - such as a simple controlled vocabulary - or highly expressive such as a formally structured ontology. Such resources may include only a representation of universal/classes/categories or may be linked to individual instance data typed according to a set of asserted classes (i.e., a knowledgebase).
Regulatory Signaling Network Reconstruction
PML Resource that provides access to tools or functions that generate network maps of biological signaling or regulatory networks based on applying logic and statistics to observations/hypothesis.
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A molecular biology facility devoted to monoclonal antibody (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody) research and uses.
Monoclonal Antibody Facility
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
thing stores data
Data Storage
Stochastic Data
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that calculate molecular forces in a biomolecular system.
Molecular Force Field Calculator
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Source Code
Resource that provides access to information content entity that specifies, using a programming language, some algorithm.
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Mass Spectrometer
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
A mass spectrometer is an instrument which is used to measure the mass to charge ratio of ions. All mass spectrometers consist of three basic parts: an ion source, a mass analyzer, and a detector system.
A resource that provides material storage, maintenance and retrieval, such as the Harvard brain tissue bank.
Material Storage Service
Sentence Splitting
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that divide sentences into components or fragments.
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Resource
A resource that provides guidance and information regarding the use of embryos or human embryonic stem cells in research.
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_services_research
Health Services
A resource that provides data that is partially structured.
Semi-Structured Knowledge Resource
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that manage software pipelines
Pipeline Manager
A resource that provides general education to the public.
Outreach Program
Source Control
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable software source control methods.
Optimizer
A resource that provides access to a tool or function that locates the extremum (usually minimum) of a cost function subject to constraints.,
A resource that provides access to a communication between an agent and one or more specific recipients.,
Personal Communication
Network Characterization
Resource that provides access to tools or functions that describe a connectivity between components at the genomic, molecular, cellular, tissue level, or population levels.
Interactive Web-Based Tool
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables hands-on resources for data management (entry, query, traversal, comparison, etc.)
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that smooths time series data.
Regularization and Smoothing
A resource that provides training to people.
Training Service
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy
Microscopy Facility
A facility that provides microscopes with which to view samples or objects.
Resource the provides access to tools or functions that implements the canonical convolution or operation that describes the action of a linear system on a signal.
Convolution
A physiology facility devoted to neurology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurology) research
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Neurological Facility
Gene Expression
A resource that provides data on the abundance of RNA that is coded from genes.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An instrument used to perform NMR of a sample.
NMR Instrument
Authorization
The process of specifying access rights to a resource.
Chamber
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An instrument that forms an enclosed space.
A resource that provides access to scientific data assessment instruments, for example behavioral assessment tests.
Assessment Material Resource
Behavioral Science
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_science
A resource that provides items such as reagents, instruments, tissue samples or organisms.
Material Resource
As per alignment with NIF resource type hierarchy.
Free Text
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Unstructured data in a format of alphanumeric characters.
Fourier Transform
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs Multi-dimensional Fourier transform
Resource that provides access an interactive software tool that enables tagging data with ontology terms.
Data Annotation
A resource that provides access to a generally agreed upon set of rules for representation.
Standard Specification
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A data object that consists of separate, but finite set of values.
Discrete Data
Innovative therapeutics (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/therapeutics)
Therapeutics
Data Transfer and Communication
A resource that provides access to software or application that is used to transmit formatted textual or binary data.
Small Molecule
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_molecule
A resource that develops policies and procedures related to associations between academia and industry to ensure that the advantages of these connections are not being achieved at the expense of the fundamental values of objectivity in research.
Conflict of Interest Resource
A Resource that provides access to a graph algorithm that uses ranking of network elements to identify the importance of elements in a network.
Centrality Analysis
License and Terms for Redistribution
A license that describes the constraints for sharing the resource.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Discrete data that consists of x, y, and z coordinates.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Three Dimensional Data
Statistical Algorithm
Resource that provides access to tools or functions that calculate basic methods of statistics and biometrics.
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Physiology Facility
A facility or core devoted to physiology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology)
Industry Partnership Expertise
Expertise for liaison with Industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry)
pending final vetting: refine definition
Aggregate Human Data
A resource that provides data from clinical care that comprises combined data from multiple individual human subjects.
Image
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy
A resource that provides data in the form of images.
Novel Therapeutics
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Innovative therapeutics (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/therapeutics)
A resource that provides access to software or application that is used to enable (i) interoperability and association of data and/or (ii) pipeline of online tools.
Integration and Interoperability Tool
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_engagement
Community Engagement
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to specifically model protein structure and function.
Protein Model
Partial Parsing
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that parse part of a text or corpus.
Knowledge Environment
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides access to collaborative knowledge building, decision making, inference or discovery tools.
A funding resource that is provided by a state.
State Funding Resource
The process of confirming the correctness of the claimed identity.
Authentication
Resource that provides access to a ontology development and management tool that is used to generate an image of the ontology.
Ontology Visualization
Application Programming Interface
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables or can be used to develop application programming interfaces.
Atlas Generation
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that generate computational atlases of biological objects using imaging techniques.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
Oscilloscope
An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.
Private Funding Resource
A funding resource where money is supplied by a non governmental organization, foundation, or company.
A resource that provides access to software or application that is used to convert or manipulate data into information or knowledge.
Data Processing Software
3-D models evolving in time
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Four Dimensional Data
Resource that provides access to molecular sequence viewers.
Sequence Visualization
A resource which can include a committee or a board that reviews research protocols and conducts evaluations of the animal care facilities. The resource can be used to ensure the use of animals in research follows the required legal and ethical guidelines.
Animal Compliance Resource
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
An enclosure, formed by conducting material or by a mesh of such material, that blocks out external static electric fields.
Faraday Cage
A resource that provides access to software or application that is used to analyze and model biological processes at the genomic, molecular, cellular, tissue level, or population levels.
Genomic Phenotypic Analysis
Resource that provides access to an ontology development and management tool that can be accessed via the Web.
Web Access
A resource comprised of one or more individuals who have specific expertise and provide professional or expert advice.
As per alignment with NIF resource type hierarchy.
I spent some time thinking about the distinction between People Resources and Services Resources. Then I spent some time thinking of what would be subclasses of people. Below is the list I came up with. However, it bares striking similarity to what we had envisioned for Related Activity or Area of Research. Looking over at NIF, they defined People Resource as "A resource that provides access to individual people based, for example, on expertise or affiliation" and do not have any child nodes. I think I've come around to the opinion that we should either adopt NIF's approach, or change from having the top level People Resource to Consulting Resource as a child of Service Resource. (then still tbd whether to have children of that- I think I'd vote for not.) Note that we're already not in complete alignment at the top level- NIF has "Job Resource". I look forward to discussion with the group.
- grant prepÂ
- business development Â
- industry partnership
- toxicologyÂ
- funding discoveryÂ
- legal counselÂ
- intellectual propertyÂ
- IRBÂ
- community outreachÂ
- financeÂ
- regulatory complianceÂ
- minority healthÂ
- study design Â
- clinical trials Â
- basic research
- Informatics
- Biostatistics
- epidemiology
- development
People Resource
Bug Reporting
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable web-based tools that provide structure to indicate a problem or issue. Typically, bug reporting software provides a mechanism to indicate the severity of the problem and a contact person to review the issue.
Ontology Development
Resource that provides access to ontology and development management tool that allows a user to develop a set of terms, and the hierarchial relationship between them as well as metadata about the terms.
Testing Tools
Resource that provides access to a software development tool to perform quality assurance of software.
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A facility or core devoted to research animals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing)
Research Animals Facility
Calculation of Solvent Accessible Area
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to determine the surface area of a molecule such as DNA or protein.
Structural Model
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to model based on a coordinate-based mathematical description of a collection of biological structures.
A resource that provides guidance related to ethical or legal matters concerning scientific research. These resources provide both information regarding ethical/legal research matters as well as methods for developing, applying, assessing and reviewing regulations (i.e. compliance documents, procedures, consent forms, etc). These resources can include both materials and documentation along with expertise in the form of personnel.
Regulatory Compliance Resource
Medical Device
A resource that provides devices used for therapy, diagnosis or surgery.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Data file resulting from natural language processing.
Automated Natural Language Output
A facility or core that provides resources for the growth of cells.
Cell Culture Facility
Website Hosting
A resource that provides space for and access to a web server and content.
As per alignment with NIF resource type hierarchy.
A resource that provides an act of helpful activity, consisting of an organized system of apparatus, appliances, technology, personnel, etc.
Service Resource
Heath Services
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_services_research
Micro Dissection Facility
A facility or core devoted to cutting apart tissue on a very small scale such as at the level of individual cells.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Web services are frequently Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.
Web Service
Protein Expression
A resource that provides data related to the presence and abundance of proteins from a cell or tissue sample.
Hypothesis Testing Algorithm
Resource that provides access to tools or functions for testing statistical hypothesis against data.
Ontology Development and Management
Resource that provides access to software development tool that can be used to build a set of terms and specify the relationship between the terms.
A resource that provides a combination of computational resources from multiple administrative domains, applied to a common task.
Grid Computing
Feature Request
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable interactive web-based tool that has functionality to collect a request for new features for a specified tool.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used perform simulations using sampling and re-sampling methods for random events.
Random Number Simulation
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to calculate the electrostatic potential of biomolecular configurations.
Numerical Calculation of Electrostatic Potential
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics
Psychometrics
Software Development
Resource that provides access to tools for computational geometric representation and analysis.
Computational Geometry
A resource that provides a simplified or symbolic representation of a system or phenomenon.
Computational Model
Atlas
A resource that provides anatomical data represented by spatially indexed anatomical maps.
Portlet Component
Resource that provides access to software portlet.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Data Repository
A resource that provides data storage and maintenance, such as a database which accepts submissions of similar data for storage and use. For example, the cell centered database (CCDB) encourages submissions of anatomical images that will increase its' holdings.
A resource that provides computational building blocks for complex data types, individual facts, statistics or items of information.
Data Object
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A resource that provides the analysis of biological samples. An example is genotyping transgenic mice.
Pathology Laboratory Screening
Hierarchical Tree
Resource that provides access to viewers of directed, acyclic tree-structures.
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A physiology facility devoted to research into metabolism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism)
Metabolism Facility
Pattern and Motif Inference
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that generate patterns or motifs based on applying logics and statistics to observations/hypothesis.
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables a software development tool that is able to generate textual information when included in computer source code as specially formatted comments.
Document Generation
Phenotype Management
Resource that provides access to applications, libraries, or software that perform inference and information retrieval on biological phenotype data.
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Heterogeneous Funding Resource
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology
Pathology
XML Database
A resource that provides access to a database that stores XML.
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables a software development tool create documentation of software source code.
Documentation Generation
Deprecated for BRO v2.7
Linear Algebra Tools
Resource that provides access to methods basic numerical analysis or other canonical computational methods that act on 1, 2, 3 or 4 dimensional images.
Image Algorithm
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Support
A resource that provides aid or assistance with a technology product.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Nonhuman Data
Clinical data that is not derived from a person.
An unpublished document, which may also be submitted to a publisher for publication.
Paper
Toxicology Expertise
A resource or expertise relating to (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicology)
pending final vetting: refine definition
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolomics
Metabolomics
A facility that provides resources relating to tissues used in biomedical research.
Tissue Organ Facility
Time Series Analysis
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that includes methods for analyzing time series data in order to extract meaningful statistics and other characteristics of the data.
Clinical Chart
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
**previously was called Clinical_Charts_eg_Demographics
we think this should be deleted
Clinical Care Data
A resource that provides any type of data obtained in the course of caring for humans outside of measurements obtained in clinical trials.
Knowledge Mining and Capturing
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that are used to extract hidden patterns from data.
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy and child terms
Data Mining and Inference
A resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkits that merge data with analysis tools with the goal of testing a research hypothesis, highlighting useful information, suggesting conclusions, or supporting decision making.
A resource that provides access to structured data that is separated by a sequence of one or more characters to mark the boundary between plain text or data streams.
Delimited Table
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables application integration using mapping.
Mapper
Physioloigcal Model
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used model physiology.
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
PCR Instrument
An instrument based on the PCR method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR)
Backup Archive Service
A resource that provides long-term storage for back-up copies of files.
License
A resource that provides access to documented permission to do something, either from a government or under a law or regulation.
A resource that provides software which maintains the identity of a software user with their software account.
Identity Management
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that calculate solutions to models with closed form.
Model with Closed Form Solutions
pending final vetting: review location in hierarchy
Regulatory Policy Resource
A resource that provides guidelines for complying with federal, state, and local regulations (e.g. research integrity office, research policy office, etc). The resource can provide seminars, documents, and other items regarding regulations.
Preclinical
The stages of biomedical research which take place in model organisms and cell lines, prior to first-in-human application of a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention.
Software Development Resource
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable interactive tools for generating a computer program.
A resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that are used in the development of database management systems.
Database Software
Vector Data
Discrete data that representents physical entities as XY coordinates.
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Patent
A resource that provides access to documents describing the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
A resource that provides access to collection of data or information that is not easily queryable without using metadata about the resource.
Unstructured Knowledge Resource
Suggested child terms: audio track, slide, and video per NIF. Work with NIF to generate definitions.
Structured File
A resource that provides access to an electronic document having and manifesting a clearly defined structure or organization that allows it to be executed.
Certificate Program
A resource that provides a document that certifies completion of the program.
A resource that provides access to an enclosed facility that takes specified precautions for containment of dangerous biological agents, as defined by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level
Biosafety Level Facility
Fast Fourier Transform
Resource that provides access to tools or functions that compute the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and its inverse.
Feature Analysis
Resource that provides access to methods for automated analysis of object features and quantitative characterization of data.
Experimental Protocol
A resource that provides detailed plans for a scientific experiments, medical trials, or other pieces of research.
Natural Language Processing
A resource that provides access to software, library, or application that interprets human (natural) language into a machine-interpretable form.
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enables professional software engineering processes.
Software Engineering Tool
Numerical Method
Resource that provides access to methods of numerical analysis or computational tools (ala, GAMS: http://gams.nist.gov/).
Continuing Medical Education
A resource that provides post-grad education for physicians.
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that methods for removing of segments from images, which have no valuable information about the biological object. For example, removing non-brain tissue from whole-brain MRI scans, for the purpose of doing quantitative evaluations of time or space changing brain anatomy.
Skull Stripping
pending final vetting: Refine definition
NMR Facility
A molecular biology facility devoted to NMR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance) research
A resource that produces a product that is of organismal origin. An example of a biomaterial service is the production of a knockout mouse or cell culture. Note, for simplicity of definitions all molecules including antibodies and toxins are considered reagents even though some may have an organismal origin.
Biomaterial Manufacture
Resource that provides access to tools or functions that provide information beyond biological sequence, e.g., function.
Sequence Annotation
Workbench
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that can be used to build or manage frameworks that provides sets of interoperable software tools.
A facility or core for biomedical imaging.
Imaging Facility
Biobank Facility
A facility or core that provides storage for any type of biospecimen.
Cell Processing Clean Room Facility
A resource that provides access to an enclosed environment that has a low and controlled level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors.
A resource that provides data or allows users to access and utilize data
Data Distribution
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits, that generate a conclusion or finding based on applying logics and statistics to observations/hypothesis.
Inference From Data
pending final vetting: work with eagle-i to define terms since out of scope of BRO
A microscope that produces an electronically-magnified image of a specimen for detailed observation.
EM
Electron Microscope
pending final vetting: Refine definition
Molecular Biology Facility
A facility or core devoted to molecular biology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_biology)
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A document that is publicly available.
Publication
A resource that provides tools or functions that aligns data with a model of the data.
Model Fitting Algorithm
A resource that provides access to instruments, technologies, facilities, and/or expert support devoted to cell biology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_biology) research
Cell Biology Facility
Former subclasses of area:Area_of_Research that have been deprecated and their usage is not recommended.
Deprecated Area of Research
A facility or core that provides services for research on sleep problems.
Sleep Study Facility
Biomedical Supply Resource
Biomedical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedicine) supplies provided for a laboratory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory)
pending final vetting: suggest to deprecate
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that simulate the effect of contact between objects. For example an articular contact model to study articular surface stresses.
Contact Modeling
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that enable electronic communication.
Communication Interface
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training
Training
Behavioral Analysis Service
A resource that provides data from whole behaving animals, which are either provided to the service provider or purchased by the service provider specifically for the experiment which the provider was contracted to perform. Viewing this as an input/output relationship the input would be an animal and the output would be data such as an excel sheet of times of escape from the Morris water maze.
pending final vetting: review hierarchy location
Exploratory Data Analysis
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs exploratory data analysis methods.
Mailing List
Resource that provides access to software, application, or toolkit that enable interactive Web-based tool that can be used to send information to groups.
Version Source Control System
A resource that provides a system for the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. It is most commonly used in engineering and software development to manage ongoing development of digital documents like application source code, art resources such as blueprints or electronic models, and other projects that may be worked on by a team of people.
Online Course
Resource that provides online training and educational resources.
As defined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device
Medical Device Development
Cardiovascular Facility
pending final vetting: Refine definition
A physiology facility devoted to cardiovascular (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiovascular_disease) research.
version information
The version information for the resource defined by a desc:Version_Information instance (containing information about version number, development stage and release date)
Data output API for resource
Data output
data output
InteractionType
What type of interaction is this?
InteractionType
replacedBy
AlgorithmPurpose
AlgorithmPurpose
Scientific purpose of algorithm
Data input API for resource
data input
Data input
related activities
Related activity represented by a subclass of the activity:Activity class in the BRO -- multiple values allowed
related areas of research
Related area of research represented by a subclass of the area:Area_of_Research class in the BRO -- multiple values allowed
Cross reference to another Resource Description, which describes a resource that is related in some way to this resource.
MeasurementType
what kind of information is being capture in this measurement?
MeasurementType
OutputForm
What form of output is produced by this thing
OutputForm
Resource type
resource type
The class in the BRO that describes the type of the resource -- multiple values allowed
DocumentGoal
What are the goals of the document
DocumentGoal
Phone number contact for the resource
contact person phone
Other Information
Other_Information
URL
The URL to access the resource
The name of the resource
resource name
Name
Development stage (e.g. pre-alpha, alpha, beta, pre-release, release)
Development stage
development stage
byline
license
The license under which the resource is distributed
License model
Contact Person(s)
The contact person for the resource
contact person
publication identifier
Publication identifier for the resource from a publicly available publication database (e.g. PMID: 19483092 or doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp440).
Definition
definition
Implementation_Language
Implementation Language
is this a peer-reviewed scientific publication?
PeerReviewStatus
PeerReviewStatus
Research Program
Name of the research cluster as identified through a funding program or other generally-accepted organizational cluster (for example NCBC, CTSA, etc.)
research program
contact person email
Email address contact for the resource
broad classification of protein type based on structure or function
ProteinType
ProteinType
Implementation Language
language
Software programming language in which resource was written or can be accessed
keywords
The list of keywords
choice of either many individual keyword elements or one element with comma-separated-values
resource sharable
Is this resource sharable [yes | no]
platforms
The software platforms on which the resource was tested (for software resources)
Platforms tested
Type of biological transcript
TranscriptType
TranscriptType
The version number
version
Version number
Name and/or acronym of the research center or institute (if appropriate) that produced, shares, or uses the resource (usually a sub-unit of Organization)
Center or Institute
center
documentation available
Is there available documentation [yes | no]
biositemap author
The person who edits or is responsible for the content of this biositemap file or of a particular resource description entry.
technical support
What technical support is available [available | limited | none]
Organization
organization
Name of the organization that produced, shares, or uses the resource (for example Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh, etc.)
Originator
Originator of a class
Originator
Date of release of version (can be specified as xsd:date or as an xsd:string)
release date
Target_User_Type
Target User Type
Identifier
Identifier
Any kind of identifier
Description
The description of the resource
description
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Resource that provides access to software, applications, or toolkits that performs signal processing by repeated measures of the signal and then calculates the expected value of the data set.
Averaging and Aglomeration
A resource the provides access to data about subjects in a clinical trial; for example demographics, medical history, labs, procedures, etc.
Clinical Trial Data
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
Environmental Health and Safety Resource
Centrality Analsysis
Deprecated for BRO v3.0
A Resource that provides access to a graph algorithm that uses ranking of network elements to identify the importance of elements in a network.
mailing list URL
documentation URL
TODO: