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EDAM is an ontology of bioscientific data analysis and data management. EDAM concentrates on topics, operations, types of data, and data formats related to analysis, modelling, optimisation, and data life-cycle in biosciences, and in other research and science-based applications.
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Possible issue with Deconvolution being synonym to Deisotoping (http://edamontology.org/operation_3629) #746

Open Kigaard opened 2 years ago

Kigaard commented 2 years ago

Currently "Deconvolution" is an exact synonym to Deisotoping (http://edamontology.org/operation_3629), which is highly related to proteomics/mass spectrometry. However, Deconvolution is also found in other fields than proteomics, such as genomics/sequencing.

veitveit commented 2 years ago

Makes sense. Can you give an example for usage of the term deconvolution in other fields?

The definition of the term is strongly related to spectra for now. Therefore, one would need to either generalize it to include other deconvolution types, or add the other ones to a different or new term.

Kigaard commented 2 years ago

@veitveit, one example in bio.tools is DeCompress, which

deconvolve targeted panels of mRNA expression into tissue compartment

Thereby possibly falling into the category of Cellular deconvolution.

The Deconvolution-definition is also found in the imaging-field in regards to the removal of image blur.