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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Reprod Dev. 2010 Apr;77(4):314–329. doi: 10.1002/mrd.21130

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Rules governing relationships allow inferences to be made across the ontology. Here we show 3 rules that can be used for inference using the is_a and part_of relationships. The is_a and part_of relationships are transitive over themselves. The part_of relationship is transitive over the is_a relationship. The black arrow can be read as “therefore”.