[Mged-mage] OBI Development

[Trish W. <wh...@pc...>]

As most you you know, members of the MGED Ontology working group are
working with other communities on a new project called the Ontology for
Biomedical Investigations (obi.sf.net). This ontology is being developed
to contain both common and domain-specific terms and is being developed
following OBO Foundry best practices (obofoundry.org). One artifact of
this design is that not all term names that a given community would
prefer to see in an annotation application are the term names in the
ontology. As one solution to this issue, the group has proposed an
annotation property to store a user community term name.

We are reviewing the implementation of this annotation property and it is
currently slated to store synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations etc. and some
of these may be further qualified by community/user group. I'm writing to
get feedback from developers as to implementation requests of this
information. Should the various term types be split out into their own
annotation property, should some of these term types not be qualified by a
user community,...?

A listing of these annotation properties can be found at:
https://www.cbil.upenn.edu/obiwiki/index.php/WorkshopMetadata


Trish