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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: Toxicol Sci. 2019 Apr 1;168(2):349–364. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfz006

Table 1:

Attributes from the AOP-KB that were assigned to each key event (KE) and key event relationship (KER)

KE Attribute Description

KE ID Unique identifier number for each KE
AOP ID List of IDs for all AOPs that a KE is a member of
KE Designator Indicates whether the event a regular key event (KE), a molecular initiating event (MIE), or an adverse outcome (AO)
Level of Biological Organization Indicates the level of biological organization as either: molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, individual, or population
KER Attribute Description

KER ID Unique identifier number for each KER
AOP ID List of IDs for all AOPs that a KER is a member of
Weight of Evidence* A value of low, moderate or high that describes the level of confidence in the empirical evidence supporting the KER
Quantitative Understanding* A value of low, moderate or high that describes the level of quantitative understanding of the KER
*

For KERs that did not have a value specified for these attributes in the AOP-KB, a default value of “low” was assigned.