[Ontology-editors] spore parts (was Re: [Obo-cell-type] [Fwd: removing "sensu" from the CTO])

[Midori Harris]

Hi Chris,

A GO-centric tangent ...

>>>>> Furthermore, for the Cell Ontology, sensu actually makes a lot
>>>>> more sense than even the GO, since we can see that a common term
>>>>> like 'spore' does mean different thing to bacterialogists and
>>>>> mycologists, even though there is an abstract relationship in the
>>>>> function and structure of bacterial spores and fungal spores.
>
> Actually, today we had a request for more spore parts in GO:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2609548&group_id=36855&atid=440764

In light of this exchange, any comments on the terms requested in this 
item, or objections to adding them? The Swiss-Prot curators are apparently 
trying to make the terms and definitions species-neutral, so I'd 
appreciate hearing what you think.

thanks,
m

> [Alex]
>>>>>  I don't care if we eliminate the sensu formulation in favor of
>>>>> species specific term names and definitions, but I do care very
>>>>> much about conflating terms that really ought to be kept
>>>>> separate.  And in this particular example (spore), there ought
>>>>> not to be a common cell type at all, and favor the retention of
>>>>> (the poorly defined) 'spore (sensu Mycetozoa) ; CL000029'.  We
>>>>> ought split out other types of spores without a common parent.