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clarifications sought for: genetic modification #780
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Discussed on March 14, 2016 call.
Follow ups are to identify and add an appropriate relation for capturing inheritance of the modification. Clarification of definitions as noted. Original comment by: cstoeckert |
Original comment by: cstoeckert |
How about adding 'derives from' to the definition? as in: Original comment by: cstoeckert |
I think that's better My personal preference is to avoid long complicated definitions with unions, and to instead break things down into named classes.
Each could have its own named class. This might be useful anyway, to allow people to better describe a sequence of events. The complexity of the class definition could be spread across these. But onto the broader point, maybe we're thinking at the wrong level. A formal biological description for a grouping class that IMHO is not so useful for biologists. As a grouping class it may be more useful in plant/food regulatory contexts, but this may be out of scope for OBI. Original comment by: cmungall |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0001151
Definition: A material entity, organism or cell, that is the output of a genetic transformation process
material entity subsumes organism or cell so why not just say material entity?
The equivalence axiom is odd:
it seems to preclude other material entities.
based on the definition of http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000312 is specified output of, which is a subprop of participation, something ceases to be GM material after it stops participating in the GM process, and the property would not be inherited across generations. This may not align with intuitive expectatiions
The process http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0600043 genetic transformation
Definition: The introduction, alteration or integration of genetic material into a cell or organism
Seems quite odd and would encompass traditional breeding, as well as natural UV radiation etc
More broadly: is this even a biologically useful grouping? genetic modification (in the stricter sense of directed modification using modern recombinant techniques) encompasses a range of techniques (many missing from OBI, .e.g. CRISPR-Cas9) it's not clear which of these this is intended to group.
The term 'genetic modification' has a regulatory meaning as well, but this may be relative to different states or transnational organizations
Reported by: cmungall
Original Ticket: obi/obi-terms/797
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