Feb 4th, 2016 Ontology Working Group Meeting
Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting
- Date: Tuesday Jan. 26th, 2016
- Time: 8:15am PST (GMT-8)
- Connection details: TBA
- Attendees: TBA
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Revisions to the biochemical trait TO:0000277 branch of the TO:
Revisions to the upper-level categories
Current upper level terms:
- TO:0000283 biological process related trait
- TO:0000282 enzymatic activity and protein content related trait
- TO:0000281 metabolite content related trait
- TO:0000465 mineral and ion content related trait
- TO:0020080 stover organic matter digestability
Suggest reducing to:
- mineral and ion content trait
- metabolite content trait (definition of 'metabolite' is sufficiently vague)
- biological process trait
metabolite content branch to be divided further in parallel to ChEBI
content/concentration/amount
Previously mentioned December 8th meeting
24 “concentration” terms
45 “content” terms
9 both
Biochemists definitions:
- concentration = amount/ VOLUME
- content = amount/MASS
PATO defs:
- ‘concentration of’ -A quality inhering in a substance by virtue of the amount of the bearer's there is mixed with another substance.
- 'amount' -The number of entities of this type that are part of the whole organism.
-Requested a revision of the 'amount' definition
- The number of entities of this type that are part of another entity.
Options:
Merge content and concentration terms - new terms would be "amount"
- this would allow for an overall reduction of terms.
- Keeps the TO "measurement agnostic", in the reference ontology sense
- Might be problematic due to changing definitions of terms with existing annotations (none found on Planteome browser)
Add new parent term 'amount'. Make content and concentration terms children of this parent (see image)
- Results in an overall addition of terms
- Adds unnecessary parent to cases where both content and concentration terms don't exist
Upcoming meetings and workshops
- Phenotype RCN meeting Feb 2016
- GARNet/Egenis Workshop: Integrating Large Data into Plant Science: From Big Data to Discovery
April 21st-22nd 2016 (Link)
- Meeting in Montpellier, May 2016
- ICBO 2016 Corvallis