Create used_in relationship

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Hello. I am an editor of the Evidence Ontology (ECO). We previously created  a 
relationship for use in ECO called used_in:

def: "A relation connecting a piece of evidence to an assertion method, where 
that assertion method is supported by the evidence." [GOC:cjm]
comment: In the future we may use a more generic relation with weaker domain 
and range constraints taken from IAO or RO

Is it possible to create a RO term for this term called used_in?

Marcus

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mchibu...@gmail.com on 31 Oct 2013 at 8:43

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Hello,

I think a relation for that particular definition is indeed needed; however, 
the name of that relationship should be carefully chosen. The definition you 
provide restricts somehow the domain and the range in contrast to the name of 
the relationship which i my opinion should be a bit more specific.. otherwise, 
it would prevent capturing other pieces of annotations/knowledge in other 
ontologies/resources with that relationship name-- for instance:

- "a certain drug ABC is *used in* XYZ clinical trial"
- "Eppendorf products are *used in* research laboratories"
- "BLAST is *used in* sequence analysis"

cheers,
Erick

Original comment by erick.an...@gmail.com on 31 Oct 2013 at 9:08

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I got in touch with Marcus and he's still interested in this relation. I see 
two major problems to solve:

1. Where should this relation live? There's a case to be made for putting it in 
OBI, IAO, or ECO itself. I know that there's a special relation between ECO and 
GO, but I don't know the details.
2. A better label: "used in" is far too general.

I'm probably not the right person to push this forward. Any volunteers?

Original comment by ja...@overton.ca on 21 Nov 2014 at 5:35