Figure 3.

Three types of biological research. Research can be divided into three categories: basic, translational, and applied. Outcomes from basic research feed into translational predictions, and developed uses for these findings constitute the basis for developing real-world applications that benefit humanity and the world. Listed after the flow of research are definitions for each research type as well as medical and plant biological models for how the different divisions are interrelated. Also shown are overviews of the example usage cases presented in Section 3.