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There are two CLIDs for the same term 'plasmacytoid dendritic cell' #2421

Open Tulasi08 opened 5 days ago

Tulasi08 commented 5 days ago

CL term - plasmacytoid dendritic cell

Description of typo, bug or error In the cl.obo file I had found two different CLIDs for plasmacytoid dendritic cell (CL:0001058 and CL:0000784) as both are subset of cellxgene_subset and human_reference_atlas.

Please let me if I have misunderstood anything.

Thanks and Regards, Tulasi S

addiehl commented 5 days ago

Hi Tulasi,

CL:0000784 'plasmacytoid dendritic cell' is a general term for plasmacytoid dendritic cells from any species that has this cell type.

CL:0001058 'plasmacytoid dendritic cell, human' is a specific term that applies only to human plasmacytoid dendritic cells

CL:0000784 'plasmacytoid dendritic cell' is the parent term of CL:0001058 'plasmacytoid dendritic cell, human'

The inclusion of both types in CL is warranted. Their use in annotating cellxgene data and whether they have been misapplied is not under the control of the CL developers. Note that it is not incorrect to use CL:0000784 when annotating human data, it is just less specific.

Thanks, Alex