sex of the organism being sequenced

[only1chunts]

New term details

Term name - sex
Structured comment name - sex
Definition - the sex of the organism sequenced
Expected value - 
Value syntax - {[termID]}|{text}
Example - female
Package(s) - any

Additional context Currently we have the term host_sex, which is misleading for any sequence that is actually of a large organism, e.g. if the sequence is a genome of a dog it would be misleading to use the term "host_sex" when there is no host. This is an issue for many of the terms when it comes to MIGS-EU checklists, afterall we are meant to be providing standards for ANY sequence, not just metagenomics.

[Woolly-at-EBI]

Hi Chris, I have much yet to learn in all this space, so please bear with me. :-) In the MIGS-EU, there are obviously, many other entity terms prefixed by host , as it is an environmental checklist and as you allude to this has been much used for Metagenomics. If many of these host* entity terms are needed in the non-prefixed form in the use case as you point out, are there plans to do detail these too?

Would you expect this use case to have its own checklist? An obvious thought is to reuse some of a relevant checklist entity terms (outwith the environmental checklists), plus adding some of the other environmental checklist relevant entity terms, then there is entity term harmonisation across the checklists.

BTW: PATO is a well curated ontology that covers biological sex, e.g. http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001894

Thanks, Peter