Improve choice of the best preferred identifier for conflated chemicals

TranslatorSRI / Babel

Babel creates cliques of equivalent identifiers across many biomedical vocabularies.

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Improve choice of the best preferred identifier for conflated chemicals #322

Open gaurav opened 3 months ago

gaurav commented 3 months ago

We should come up with strategies for improving choosing the best preferred identifier for conflated chemicals (something better than the smallest identifier).

Some ideas:

Shorted preferred name or shortest synonym if it’s a direct subset of something else
If cliques have SMILES — choosing the clique with the smallest number of components or the smallest molecular weight would help with
Information content? Degree — number of linkouts?
RxNorm active ingredient information

gaurav commented 1 month ago

Duplicate with https://github.com/TranslatorSRI/Babel/issues/341, but I'm not sure which one to close.