---
name: "Bio::MAGE::Tools::MGEDOntologyEntry"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libbio-mage-utils-perl"
version: "20030502.0-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Bio::MAGE::Tools::MGEDOntologyEntry"
---

# Bio::MAGE::Tools::MGEDOntologyEntry(3pm)

## Bio::MAGE::Tools::MGEDOntologyEntry

### SYNOPSIS

```
  Bio::MAGE::Tools::MGEDOntologyEntry is an abstract class.
  Superclass is:
    Bio::MAGE::Tools::OntologyEntry
  Subclasses are:
    Bio::MAGE::Tools::MGEDOntologyClassEntry
    Bio::MAGE::Tools::MGEDOntologyPropertyEntry
```

### DESCRIPTION

This is an abstract class for MGEDOntologyClassEntry and MGEDOntologyPropertyEntry with very little mind of its own.

### ATTRIBUTES

Attributes are simple data types that belong to a single instance of a class. In the Perl implementation of the MAGE-OM classes, the interface to attributes is implemented using separate setter and getter methods for each attribute.

- isAssignable

  Stores whether the represented MGED Ontology concept needs to get a value assigned before use or not.  (static feature)

- isAssigned

  Stores whether an assignable concept has been assigned a value or not (dynamic feature)

- errorMessage

  Stores a possible error message that arose while trying to set the category or more likely value attributes of this class.

- assignableValues

  Stores the list of values that can be assigned to this category

## BUGS

Please send bug reports to mged-mage@lists.sf.net

## AUTHOR

Eric W. Deutsch (edeutsch@systemsbiology.org)

## SEE ALSO

[**perl**(1)](/perl/1.md).

## POD ERRORS

Hey! **The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:**

- Around line 283:

  You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'