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homeostasis is a process #84

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Is the intent that OGMS follow principles of reuse, univocity?

homeostasis is in GO as a process. You're free to contest this, e.g. on the GO 
tracker (I think it's a conventional view, and is used in this way in phenotype 
ontologies such as MP).

OGMS places homeostasis under quality, with no definition. What does the 
quality inhere in? It seems problematic to have classes with no definitions in 
an upper ontology intended to be subclasses by multiple other ontologies. It 
also makes interpretation of 'abnormal homeostasis' difficult. I would argue 
that many uses of the term 'abnormal homeostasis' refer to some change to a 
homeostatic process, rendering it no longer homeostasis...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cmung...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2014 at 9:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I think I agree that homeostasis is a process.  I have some thought about how 
it might be defined.  Will check into the GO term and definition.

Original comment by rscheuer...@jcvi.org on 20 Jun 2014 at 11:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The relevant GO term is "homeostatic process" which is defined as "Any 
biological process involved in the maintenance of an internal steady state."  
The problem is that there is no definition of "internal steady state".  I an 
guessing that "state" is some kind of quality.

Original comment by rscheuer...@jcvi.org on 20 Jun 2014 at 11:39