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Clarify our use of the term phenotype #71

Open cmungall opened 7 years ago

cmungall commented 7 years ago

Some may use it to describe the complete phenotype of an organism (analogous to genotype)

Our model is also:

Which does not necessarily conform to others models or terminologies (e.g. OMIM)

Consider renaming Phenotype to PhenotypicFeature (but this would be disruptive, I would vote -1)