Add biological entity/anatomical entity

OBOFoundry / COB

An experimental ontology containing key terms from Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)

https://obofoundry.github.io/COB

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Add biological entity/anatomical entity #112

Closed wdduncan closed 3 years ago

wdduncan commented 3 years ago

Per COB workshop: Add class biological entity to cover organisms, gross anatomy, cellular, and subcellular anatomy.

wdduncan commented 3 years ago

See also #99 This could replace 'anatomical entity' as a top-level entity.

bpeters42 commented 3 years ago

My very personal opinion is that these kind of grouping terms do not add value to COB, as they reflect specific sub-field biases. I think we should strongly favor classes that can be logically defined in terms of scope. So 'anatomical entity' as 'part of' some organism is much less problematic in my mind that 'biological entity' where it gets very wishy-washy what the border is to 'chemical' or 'medical', or 'biochemical' or 'biomedical' or etc.

nataled commented 3 years ago

I don't have a strong opinion on this, but one could say that the value of such groupings lies in discoverability. That is, if someone was to navigate the ontology from the top down, such groupings could help find some specific class beneath it. Whether or not this particular case meets that mild standard is another question.

cmungall commented 3 years ago

Closed in favor #99