DESIGN PRINCIPLES
The design principles of UberVariO were
- to develop a generic ontology
- to be applicable to all biological disciplines
- to be organism-agnostic
- to cover all possible concepts having heterogeneity
Major branches
UberVariO is divided into 10 major branches
- biosphere
- ecosystem
- species
- population
- organism
- organ and tissue
- cell
- macromolecule
- molecule
- element
and variation parameters.
Disciplines
UberVariO includes concepts in the following disciplines
- anatomy
- biochemistry
- bioinformatics
- biophysics
- biology
- cell biology
- chemistry
- developmental biology
- ecology
- genetics
- immunology
- medicine
- microbiology
- molecular biology
- neurobiology
- physiology
- population biology
- structural biology
- synthetic biology
- systems biology
- toxicology