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Crystal geyser? #804

Open tnn111 opened 5 years ago

tnn111 commented 5 years ago

Any suggestions on how to annotate microbial communities from groundwater? I'd say it's a "freshwater biome" but it's "groundwater" and I expect that to be different from say "lake water". I'm looking at ones from the aquifers around there and maybe an "aquifer biome" would be useful?

If someone has a good suggestion for how to deal with just groundwater, that would work. I have a number of wells too.

pbuttigieg commented 5 years ago

My feeling here is that you put the aquifer (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00012408) in the feature slot, and use the biome slot to contextualise where the aquifer was (desert biome, temperature needleleaf forest biome, etc)

Multiple classes per slot are permitted in MIxS.

We have classes for wells (e.g. water well: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000002) which can be useful in the feature slot too.

For material, there is "groundwater" (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001004), and you can add more material terms like "freshwater" as needed (probably best, as not all groundwater is fresh).

cmungall commented 3 years ago

I think the class "groundwater" (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001004) satisfies this, so can we close?