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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 7 months ago

ddooley commented 7 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 6 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)