NTR: "plankton"

[pbuttigieg]

User request for "plankton". Not clear if this is meant as a mass noun or a community-level entity. Either way, it seems sensible to connect with PCO and PATO on this.

@rlwalls2008: If this refers to plankton in some sort of water, it looks like an interesting PCO/ENVO cross-product. We could say ENVO:water and has_increased_levels_of some PCO:planktonic community. The 'has_increased_levels_of' is not really right, will have to scan for a better construction in RO. Other than that, planktonic (probably a PATO candidate) refers to an organism's inability to swim against a current.

We could also define plankter (singular of plankton) as some organism and has quality some planktonic. Not sure where that would live, but ENVO could host it. We do, after all, have alga to express algal bloom. It could be linked to NCBITax IDs of planktonic species.

[cmungall]

I'd keep it simple

• plankton = population of organisms whose members are all plankters
• plankter = organism that has_quality planktonic
• planktonic: defer (could be defined using a behavior ontology but doesn't really buy us much)

Either way, there would need to be manual classification of organisms (or organism stages) into plankters/plankton populations if we are to get auto-classification. A big task!

[pbuttigieg]

I like that formulation. Even if its a large task, we can seed it well. Having 'planktonic' as a quality would be useful, and plankter can be auto-populated by inference.

[stephanepesant]

That suits my needs and is also elegant/logical.

StéphanePESANT

PANGAEA http://www.pangaea.de/ - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science

---

MARUM http://www.marum.de/en/Stphane_Pesant.html - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences

UniversitätBremen

Hochschulring18 (Cognium) POP 330 440 28359 Bremen

Germany

Phone Office +49 421 218 65583

Mobile +49 171 273 3611

Fax +49 421 218 65505

E-mail : spesant@marum.de mailto:spesant@marum.de

Skype : spesant (Bremen, DE)

Linkedin : Stéphane PESANT

**

Le 26/09/2015 19:13, Pier Luigi Buttigieg a écrit :

I like that formulation. Even if its a large task, we can seed it well. Having 'planktonic' as a quality would be useful, and plankter can be auto-populated by inference.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/251#issuecomment-143470513.

[pbuttigieg]

@rlwalls2008 Could we add

plankton = population of organisms whose members are all plankters

to PCO?

[pbuttigieg]

While these are pending, I've created planktonic material in ENVO (release soon). This class can be used for environmental samples of planktonic matter, such as the mass on a filter. Note that this does not link to 'sea water' directly, as this would probably be over-specifying. Please use other classes to indicate the material that surrounded the plankton.

[ramonawalls]

I missed this discussion when it was new. If you still want plankton as a collection of organisms in PCO, let me know.

[pbuttigieg]

Yes! This would be great!

On 21 Dec 2016 05:01, "Ramona Walls" notifications@github.com wrote:

I missed this discussion when it was out. If you still want plankton as a collection of organisms in PCO, let me know.

— You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/251#issuecomment-268429984, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACK7Mu__GOcUnsrOeGTqxRYv3W9kyXk2ks5rKKSvgaJpZM4F8NfS .