Fig. 2From: The bacterial interlocked process ONtology (BiPON): a systemic multi-scale unified representation of biological processes in prokaryotesSystemic decomposition of biological processes. a Input/output representation of a generic process. b Decomposition of a biological process (e.g. initiation of translation) (level B1) into sub-processes of higher granularity, down to the decomposition into elementary processes (level B3). Abbreviations are EP for Elementary Process, MAP for Middle Aggregated Process, ncBioE for next consumed biological entityBack to article page