[Ontology-editors] CC organization question for xps

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi Tanya,

Are you saying that you don't feel that the process by which subcellular 
components are generated should really be is_a to developmental process? 
I feel this, but I'm not sure whether I have missed some intention you 
had in making this graph, as the developmental process def currently 
does include subcellular structures:

def:A biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of an 
integrated living unit: an anatomical structure (which may be a 
subcellular structure, cell, tissue, or organ), or organism over time 
from an initial condition to a later condition.

To my mind it would make more sense somehow to distinguish between the 
kind of multicellular structures that undergo classical developmental 
processes, and the subcellular structures that are generated in 
different ways. If my understanding is correct then I think maybe the 
answer is just to do something like this:

[i]anatomical structure generation (renamed from anatomical structure dev)
---[i]multicellular structure development (classical organ and tissue 
and larger scale developmental processes)
---[i]cell development (to include things like cell differentiation as now)
---[i]subcellular structure generation

[i]developmental process
---[i]multicellular structure development (classical developmental 
processes)
---[i]cell development (to include things like cell differentiation)

This would take CC assembly out of under development, but keep it under 
anatomical structure generation. It would also avoid massive 
rearrangements of the development/morphogenesis structures that were so 
carefully put together before. Does that make sense or have I missed 
something?

Thanks,

Jen