Table 3 Responses to “What is the entry point” question, and information-centric vs. biology-centric categories.

From: Subjective data models in bioinformatics and how wet lab and computational biologists conceptualise data

Participant ID

Entry Point(s) chosen

Category

Participant 01

homologue

biology-centric

Participant 02

accession, identifier, DOI, pubmed ID

information-centric

Participant 03

disease, flymine, ensembl, uniprot

both

Participant 04

gene

unclear

Participant 05

identifier, dataset, database, publication

information-centric

Participant 06

gene, identifier

both

Participant 07

gene, protein, chromosome, organism

biology-centric

Participant 08

gene

biology-centric

Participant 09

disease

money-centric

Participant 10

gene, identifier

information-centric

Participant 11

protein

biology-centric

Participant 12

organism, accession

information-centric

Participant 13

publication

information-centric

Participant 14

identifier

information-centric

Participant 15

publication

information-centric

Participant 16

pathway

circuits (electrical engineering)

Participant 17

publication

information-centric

Participant 18

database

information-centric

Participant 19

d. melanogaster

biology-centric

Participant 20

gene

information-centric

Participant 21

gene, name

information-centric

Participant 22

database

information-centric