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The core repository for the FOODON food ontology project. This holds the key classes of the ontology; larger files and the results of text-mining projects will be stored in other repos.
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Feedback on nutrient administration pathways #291

Open ddooley opened 11 months ago

ddooley commented 11 months ago

Related to how food and nutrients are defined, this diagram explores the different ways food or nutrients are ingested or injected into organisms with gastrointestinal tracts:

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The terms need to work across domains of practitioners - dieticians, nutritionalists, animal physiologists, clinical therapists ...

Feedback is appreciated on names, synonyms and definitions. If it appears a Gene Ontology or ENVO term isn't satisfactory, then we can propose a change or a new term.

maweber-bia commented 10 months ago

it looks fine ! Maybe a suggestion for "food oral processing (FOP)" as a preferred label instead of "intraoral food processing" (see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2007.11.013)