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Minimum Information about an Omics Protocol (MIOP) specifications
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Term review: add link to ontologies to relevant terms #11

Closed raissameyer closed 1 year ago

raissameyer commented 2 years ago

For many of the keys in MIOP, we expect values that reference a term in an ontology or thesaurus. Thus far, we added examples, but have not yet provided information on the terminologies themselves or how to access them.

This is relevant for the following terms:

Consulting the guidance provided in such MIxS v6 fields:

This field accepts ontology terms from Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) and/or Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI). For a browser of EFO (v 2.95) terms, please see http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/EFO; for a browser of OBI (v 2018-02-12) terms please see http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/OBI

We should additionally consider this issue on the MIxS tracker on updating the ontology references in MIxS v7: see https://github.com/GenomicsStandardsConsortium/mixs/issues/300

This issue also brings up a bigger question about whether we want guiding information as part of a term's definition. This is how MIxS currently does it, and compliance with that might be appropriate. However, in terms of structure and clarity, it is worth considering capturing information like this in a separate field.