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An ontology of gross anatomy covering metazoa. Works in concert with https://github.com/obophenotype/cell-ontology
http://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/
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parent of 'life cycle stage' unclear #1640

Open johnwjudkins opened 3 years ago

johnwjudkins commented 3 years ago

Uberon term 'life cycle stage' UBERON:0000105

Suggested revision and reasons The definition of 'life cycle stage' states that it is a "spatiotemporal region". However, the parent for 'life cycle stage' is not BFO's 'spatiotemporal region', but 'processual entity', whose definition looks similar to BFO's 'process'.

I would like to know which category you understand this term to be in; could some biological process be part of a life cycle stage, or does it occupy a life cycle stage?

I'd suggest 'process' or 'spatiotemporal region' from BFO as the parent, but I'm really only looking for clarification.

wdduncan commented 2 years ago

Clarification about life cycle stage is also needed for ECTO. In ECTO, the various stages (death stage, embryo stage, etc.) are simply placed under occurrent.

I agree with @johnwjudkins that it difficult to differentiateprocess and processual entity based on the definitions. This was issue was also raised in #2301.

cc @cmungall @matentzn @diatomsRcool @laurenechan