sensu terms

[cmungall]

It is likely that the GO terms containing sensu will be obsoleted, merged, or renamed and that taxon specific information will be captured by some other mechanism. This should also be done for the cell ontology.

What this means is that for each cell type containing a sensu in the name, it should be determined if the term has a different definition than its parent. If true, then it may need a new name and perhaps a sibling. If not, then it may be appropriate to merge the parent and child.

This has become an issue for ZFIN due to our cell slurp. For example, we need to annotate to neuroblast (sensu vertebrata). Does this mean we should import the parent, neuroblast as well? we'd never use the term for annotation. It looks funny to have a term here called neuroblast (sensu vertebrata), so we'd have to rename it just neuroblast. This seems silly. Really the information regarding taxa is already there - its a zebrafish neuroblast.

Request forthcoming from Doug Howe with regard to this particular example.

I just wanted to put on our (long) list of to do items the general cleanup of the sensu terms.

Thanks, melissa

Original comment by: mellybelly

[cmungall]

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see also http://www.obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/Species\_specificity

Original comment by: cmungall

[cmungall]

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see also http://www.obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/Species\_specificity

Original comment by: cmungall

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Thanks for the advance notification! Is there any ETA / expected timeline for this change?

Original comment by: ohofmann

[cmungall]

• assigned_to: Chris Mungall
• Group: --> GO-Cell-XP

Original comment by: nicolevasilevsky

[cmungall]

this ticket should be moved to the github tracker

Original comment by: nicolevasilevsky