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RO is an ontology of relations for use with biological ontologies
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parasite vs pathogen #141

Open diatomsRcool opened 7 years ago

diatomsRcool commented 7 years ago

Are there any guidelines for using parasite relations vs pathogen relations? Is pathogen_of restricted to single-celled organisms? Where do we want to draw the line? The example I'm thinking of is Dirofilaria immitis, which causes heartworm disease in canines. It could easily be thought of as an internal parasite, but it also causes a disease. Which is best? Thoughts?

diatomsRcool commented 7 years ago

I'm working on this now.

nlharris commented 3 years ago

Is this done?