[Obi-protocol-application-branch] plan cleanup: question about material transformation objective

[Philippe Rocca-S. <ro...@eb...>]

Hi,

currently,  processes such as (animal care, acclimatization, maintaining 
cell culture)  are sibling of material processing and assay.
I could add a restriction  to achieves_planned_objective some 'material 
transformation objective' so those classes classify under material 
processing.

Checking the definition of the 'material transformation objective', 
which is pretty lose, I presume that 'maintenance' or 'care' can be 
viewed as some kind of 'invariant' transformation.
maintaining cell culture obviously aims to ensure cell retain their 
phenotype, at minima keep cells alive.

If OK with everyone, I will perform the change. If not, then make a case 
for an additional objective to cover those cases.

cheers

Philippe

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