From 0a433fff8d5e0c5ce00b6983e808e602fddbc9d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julie McMurry Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:11:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update requirements.md Clarifying comment: "Note this context must be explicit. For example, phenotypes that are mentioned in the "background" section of a journal article should not be included in the phenopacket unless they are *also* phenotypes observed in the patients/organism/gene under study. Otherwise, the algorithms used to analyze the phenopackets could infer nonsense associations." --- requirements.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/requirements.md b/requirements.md index 3aa55e7..14b7a3c 100644 --- a/requirements.md +++ b/requirements.md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ limited to: * variants or collections of variants * any of the above in non-human context +Note this context must be explicit. For example, phenotypes that are mentioned in the "background" section of a journal article should not be included in the phenopacket unless they are *also* phenotypes observed in the patients/organism/gene under study. Otherwise, the algorithms used to analyze the phenopackets could infer nonsense associations. + ## Levels Because different levels of precision are required for different