The symbol value from the fields "Alternative titles; symbols" and "Included Title(s); symbols" is missing

[twhetzel]

View the information at: https://omim.org/entry/618983?search=les&highlight=les

The string LES that is a symbol for the Alternative title and appears to be in the "mimTitles" file is not added into the omim.owl file. The field could be added as a synonym with type annotation abbreviation.

Similar finding for symbols from "Included Title(s); symbols". See https://omim.org/entry/618856?search=618856&highlight=DEND1

[joeflack4]

It looks like it may not be pulling stuff after the ; in alternative titles.

[joeflack4]

Need to double check, "Alternative titles; symbols" on the web site seems to always follow this syntax: SINGLE LABEL; SINGLE SYMBOL

Example:

Alternative titles; symbols LEWIS BLOOD GROUP SYSTEM; LES

There can be multiple "Alternative titles; symbols", each on a different line.

Questions

• [ ] 1. Label cardinality: Could there ever be 0 or 2+ per line? (probably not)
• [ ] 2. Symbol cardinality: Could there ever be 0 or 2+ per line?
  • A: There can be 0 symbols. (still not sure about 2+)
• [ ] 3. Alternative patterns?: Is it only ever this pair of label and symbol, or could there be additional ; with additional synonyms of a sort?
• [ ] 4. _Symbol synonym_type_: Should we interpret the symbols always as abbreviations? Or are they sometimes acronyms? Or are they sometimes not quite acronyms or abbreviations, but abbreviation/acronym-like?

Some sub-tasks for Joe

• [ ] Answer questions
• [ ] Check mimTitles.txt syntax: On the web page they're line break delimited if multiple title symbol pairs. But what about the data file? I'm guessing they appear on the same row. How are label/symbol pairs delimited? Maybe by ,?