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An ontology about groups of interacting organisms such as populations and communities
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Add 'biological family' as subtype of 'family' #57

Closed mbrush closed 6 years ago

mbrush commented 6 years ago

I am working with the ClinGen DMWG to build a model supporting clinical variant interpretations, and we are looking to re-use as possible from existing ontologies. We need the concept of a biological/genealogical family for the purpose of describing pedigree analyses. It seems that the PCO community has previously considered adding such a term in #3, and I think that this proposal is largely in line with what we need.

The definition below is adapted from the proposed definition in these prior discussions - but we have removed the phrase "and whose members form a socially interacting group" - as we do not want to require that members of a biological family necessarily interact socially.

tagging @ramonawalls here as i don't have repo permissions to assign.

Preferred term label

biological family

Synonyms

genealogical family

Textual definition

"A collection of organisms of the same species whose members are all either genealogically related to each other or have mated with each other"

Suggested parent term

PCO:0000020 'family'

mbrush commented 6 years ago

Hi @ramonawalls. Any thoughts on this request, or clarifications I can make! Thanks!

ramonawalls commented 6 years ago

@mbrush Sorry I didn't notice this when it came it! I see no problems with the term you suggest, other than it will be challenging to define it logically. I can add it to PCO with a text definition as a start. I will try to do a release before next Monday so you can have the term.

ramonawalls commented 6 years ago

New term created, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000032.

Still have to do release.

ramonawalls commented 6 years ago

Release was just pushed, this term is now available for use.