search

oborel / obo-relations

RO is an ontology of relations for use with biological ontologies
http://oborel.github.io/
Other
91 stars 46 forks source link

NCIt Term Suggestions for Cross-Reference #720

Closed ssyeds3 closed 1 year ago

ssyeds3 commented 1 year ago

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) Program (https://datacommons.cancer.gov/) is developing data standards for submitting data to the CRDC ecosystem. As part of this effort, the CRDC Data Standards Service (DSS) Team is identifying industry standards that can be leveraged for this harmonization and standardization effort.

In the process of mapping valid values between various ontologies and NCIt we (the DSS Team) came across terms in the RO ontology that either did not have a cross-reference to NCIt terms or that we thought did not cross-reference to the correct NCIt term (please see below):

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

RO Term | RO ID | NCIt Term Suggestion for Cross-Reference -- | -- | -- surrounded by | RO:0002219 | Surrounding (C52247)

wdduncan commented 1 year ago

Hi @ssyeds3
Mappings between NCIT and RO could be established. However, thinking of the top of my head, I think the OBO version of the NCIT might be the better place for such mappings. What do you think @cmungall ?

In regards to your specific example (Surrounding). The semantics are different than surrounded by. Surrounding is a Property or Attribute in NCIT, but surrounded by is an object property in RO. So, while a mapping is possible, it won't line up exactly the same from a semantic standpoint.

wdduncan commented 1 year ago

We discussed this on the RO call and decided due to the issues mentioned that this is not something we can implement right now.