"Tissue" is the display name of the BioSample attribute this application now labels "Anatomy". Fortunately the string "anatomy" is not assigned as a name or synonym of any BioSample attributes, so we may be able to simply add it as a synonym of "tissue". Given that "organism part" is already a synonym of "tissue", the fact that "anatomy" is conceptually broader than "tissue" presumably would not be a problem.
"Tissue" is already used in BioSample for values that are not tissues. For example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN03658743 asserts "tissue: blood", but UBERON, the main anatomical ontology used by the Cell Line Ontology, does not model blood as a kind of (i.e. subclass of) tissue.
So although using "Anatomy" instead of "Tissue" in this UI seems logical in itself, we should nevertheless ensure that our BioSample metadata app aligns with BioSample metadata vocabulary.
Using the label "Anatomy" instead of "Tissue" as requested in https://github.com/NCBI-Hackathons/Metadata_categorization/issues/12 seems logical but inconsistent with BioSample vocabulary. We could fix that by getting "anatomy" added as a synonym of "tissue" in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/docs/attributes/.
"Tissue" is the display name of the BioSample attribute this application now labels "Anatomy". Fortunately the string "anatomy" is not assigned as a name or synonym of any BioSample attributes, so we may be able to simply add it as a synonym of "tissue". Given that "organism part" is already a synonym of "tissue", the fact that "anatomy" is conceptually broader than "tissue" presumably would not be a problem.
"Tissue" is already used in BioSample for values that are not tissues. For example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN03658743 asserts "tissue: blood", but UBERON, the main anatomical ontology used by the Cell Line Ontology, does not model blood as a kind of (i.e. subclass of) tissue.
So although using "Anatomy" instead of "Tissue" in this UI seems logical in itself, we should nevertheless ensure that our BioSample metadata app aligns with BioSample metadata vocabulary.