Re: [Obo-discuss] use of term 'cell' in various ontologies.

[Pankaj J. <pj...@co...>]

Michael Ashburner (Genetics) wrote:

> the CL Ontology has this term:
> 
> [Term]
> id: CL:0000610
> name: plant cell
> def: "A cell found in seeded plants." [TAIR:syr]
> is_a: CL:0000255 ! eukaryotic cell
> 
> 
> The Drosophila Anatomy ontology does not have a term 'cell'.
> 
> Michael
> 

Just a quick check I did on anatomy files from all MODs except the ones 
from gross plant anatomy sets', there were about 650 terms that carry 
'cell' either in its term name or synonym. There were no instances 
generic cell of bacterial/fungal/human/etc. Only microbial structure 
ontology had 'unicellular structure, FAO:0000018'.

Another question is do you think that we should also group the cell 
types from individual MOD in the various anatomy ontologies as well as 
in Cell type ontology. If not as Barry pointed out there might be 
multiple usage of the same term name (there are few instances in OBO 
anatomies).

Pankaj