Package ubic.gemma.model.common

Interface Describable

All Superinterfaces:

Identifiable

All Known Subinterfaces:

BioAssaySetValueObject, CellLevelCharacteristics

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAuditable, AbstractDescribable, Analysis, ArrayDesign, BibliographicReference, BioAssay, BioAssaySet, BioMaterial, BioSequence, BlacklistedEntity, BlacklistedExperiment, BlacklistedPlatform, CellTypeAssignment, Characteristic, ChromosomeFeature, CoexpressionAnalysis, CompositeSequence, Compound, Contact, DifferentialExpressionAnalysis, ExperimentalDesign, ExperimentalFactor, ExpressionAnalysis, ExpressionExperiment, ExpressionExperimentDetailsValueObject, ExpressionExperimentSet, ExpressionExperimentSubSet, ExpressionExperimentSubsetValueObject, ExpressionExperimentValueObject, ExternalDatabase, Gene, GeneDifferentialExpressionMetaAnalysis, GeneProduct, GenericCellLevelCharacteristics, GeneSet, Investigation, Person, PrincipalComponentAnalysis, Protocol, QuantitationType, Reporter, SampleCoexpressionAnalysis, SingleExperimentAnalysis, Statement, Treatment, User, UserGroup

public interface Describable
extends Identifiable

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getDescription()	Obtain a human-readable description of the object
String	getName()	Obtain the name of an object is a possibly ambiguous human-readable identifier that need not be an external database reference.

Methods inherited from interface ubic.gemma.model.common.Identifiable

getId

Method Details

getDescription

String getDescription()

Obtain a human-readable description of the object

getName

String getName()

Obtain the name of an object is a possibly ambiguous human-readable identifier that need not be an external database reference.