methods general issue

[tgbugs]

General issue for merging new methods related work.
See https://github.com/tgbugs/pyontutils/tree/master/development/methods.

Existing issues.
#127
#100
#87
#64
#1

[tgbugs]

Review usage of protocol BIRNLEX:11010 vs assay BIRNLEX:11025 in NIFINV. It is not clear that imaging should be a subclass of assay. We should be able to avoid all these various facets of measurement processes in the new ontology.

For example manifests as apparent duplicate between BIRNLEX:2250 and NLXINV:090914.

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Note that there is a nasty problem with the BIRNLEX:11010 subtree -- experimental paradigm has been added as a subclass, which is clearly incorrect. The whole BIRNLEX:11007 branch for information entity needs to be reworked.

BIRNLEX:11021 ! planned process branch also needs review, as does everything under BFO:0000015 ! process.

[tgbugs]

For behavioral methods we might also want to investigate the inclusion of https://github.com/obo-behavior/behavior-ontology/ aka http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/nbo.owl.

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Sampling strategies at the cellular and organism phenotypic/population levels.