Open matentzn opened 6 days ago
The CARO term is not specifically multicellular:
A general term for organism that is agnostic about single cell vs multi-cellular
Using the UBERON term would change these patterns so that they become unsuitable for unicellular organisms, so I think you need to get some unicellular organism people to sign off on this.
@matentzn This CARO to UBERON change, restricts this pattern to multicellular organisms. Was this intended? As the patterns are all related to resistance/sensitivity of an organism to a chemical I would have thought we would want this to apply to both single cell and multicellular organisms.
Which other class should I be using though? since we align all anatomy on Uberon, I need some kind of Uberon class here..
My goal here is only to get rid of the CARO class (it is the only remaining CARO dependency in uPheno which I am completely redoing now) - I am fine with whatever alternative you suggest..
If you really need to use UBERON right now, you probably need to go up to 'anatomical structure'. Though it would be better to get a uni/multi-cellular-agnostic 'whole organism' term made. (Is there a reason UBERON doesn't have this already?)
I agree with @Clare72 I think we should go up to http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000061 'anatomical structure' this is an ancestor of 'multicellular organism' and looking at the tree in OLS this should cover things like CL - cell and GO - cellular anatomical entity. It should cover all that we need.
COB?
I am fine with using COB, but COB is still using the CARO class: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/cob/classes/http%253A%252F%252Fpurl.obolibrary.org%252Fobo%252FCARO_0001010
Maybe we can remove that mapping in COB, and use the COB class?
As we face out the use of CARO, we need to update the corresponding patterns from CARO: cellular organism to the UBERON: multicellular organism for "whole organism" patterns.