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Class: EpigenomicEntity

Description: A mixin for entities that represent epigenomic modifications or features associated with heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve changes to the DNA sequence itself.
classDiagram class EpigenomicEntity EpigenomicEntity <|-- NucleosomeModification EpigenomicEntity : has_biological_sequence

Slots

Name Cardinality and Range Inheritance Examples
has_biological_sequence:
connects a genomic feature to its sequence
0..1
BiologicalSequence
direct

Mixin Usage

mixed into description
NucleosomeModification A chemical modification of a histone protein within a nucleosome octomer or a substitution of a histone with a variant histone isoform.

LinkML Source

name: epigenomic entity
description: A mixin for entities that represent epigenomic modifications or features
  associated with heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve changes
  to the DNA sequence itself.
in_subset:
- translator_minimal
from_schema: https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/
mixin: true
slots:
- has biological sequence