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#2448 Request to remove dbxref descriptions in obo export

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2015-06-09
2015-06-09
Chris Mungall
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CHEBI's use of the dbxref description field is different from other obo ontologies, where it's usage is either deprecated, or used to store the label for the xreffed entity

For example, CHEBI says:

xref: HMDB:HMDB34355 "HMDB"

All other obo ontologies would say either:

xref: HMDB:HMDB34355 "5-Hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxaldehyde"

Or simply:

xref: HMDB:HMDB34355

Can CHEBI switch to either of these schemes? The current usage is making the owl export incompatible with other ontologies.

Background:

https://github.com/owlcollab/oboformat/issues/89

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