microbe
METPO:1000525 · CLASS · REVIEWED
A material entity that is too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, typically requiring microscopy for observation. Used as the domain class for METPO organism-to-X object properties so that organism-level assertions can be expressed as `<microbe-instance> <METPO predicate> <object-class>`.
Provenance
- Source
- METPO (2025-11-25)
- Definition source
- PMID:21413255
Parent traits (1)
kg-microbe context
Matched 1 kg-microbe node via direct_metpo.
METPO:1000525[+0.029, -0.773, +0.243, +1.218, …]
Nearest neighbors in embedding space
- upper enzyme 0.969
- upper chemical entity 0.964
- upper material entity 0.957
- metabolism organism interacts with chemical 0.375
- metabolism transports 0.367
- metabolism does not transport 0.364
- metabolism accumulates 0.360
- metabolism does not accumulate 0.358
Curation history
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CREATED_UPPER_CLASS_RECORD · claude
Created upper-ontology CLASS record for METPO:1000525 (microbe) so that the domain of un-deprecated metabolism OBJECT_PROPERTYs (which all declare domain https://w3id.org/metpo/1000525) resolves to a curated TraitMech record.
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REMOVED_NON_EQUIVALENT_XREF · claude
Removed xref to OBI:0100026 (organism) per Copilot review of PR #55. The schema documents xrefs as ontology *equivalents*; OBI:0100026 "organism" is broader than "microbe" (it covers macro-organisms too), so treating it as an equivalence mapping would mis-align downstream consumers. No clean NCBITaxon, OBI, or ENVO equivalent for "microbe" exists because the concept cuts across bacteria, archaea, and microbial eukaryotes; left without xrefs.