Figure 5.

Ontological model depicting some technological (i.e., food preservation) (A) and nutritional (i.e., being suitable for consumption to lactose-intolerant subjects) (B) services provided by the microbiota in dairy fermented foods. Solid arrows represent semantic relations in RO (annotated with their label), while dashed arrows represent hierarchical relationships (i.e., “is a” relation). Pink and blue rectangles refer to process or material entity, respectively. The label and the term ID (formatted as an ontology prefix followed by a number) are reported for each class. Classes are generally conceptualized to the universal level (i.e., the definition and concepts apply to any possible class instance). When suitable, instance-level concepts (indicated with white rhombus) indicate a particular instance of the universal concept.