Difference between revisions of "Semantics of phenotype annotations"

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In Phenoscape data annotation, we typically model a phenotype as a class expression describing a set of organisms, for example <nowiki>'</nowiki>''has_part'' some ('''caudal fin''' and ''bearer_of'' some '''bifurcated''')<nowiki>'</nowiki>. How precisely this phenotype class is related to a taxon has important consequences for the resulting inferences and thus queries for phenotypes across the taxonomy.
 
In Phenoscape data annotation, we typically model a phenotype as a class expression describing a set of organisms, for example <nowiki>'</nowiki>''has_part'' some ('''caudal fin''' and ''bearer_of'' some '''bifurcated''')<nowiki>'</nowiki>. How precisely this phenotype class is related to a taxon has important consequences for the resulting inferences and thus queries for phenotypes across the taxonomy.
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This page assumes that taxa are represented as OWL individuals, and the taxonomy is a tree of ''member_of''/''has_member'' relationships. For example:
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Ictalurus_punctatus ''member_of''  Ictalurus ''member_of'' Ictaluridae ''member_of'' Siluriformes

Revision as of 00:51, 29 August 2011

In Phenoscape data annotation, we typically model a phenotype as a class expression describing a set of organisms, for example 'has_part some (caudal fin and bearer_of some bifurcated)'. How precisely this phenotype class is related to a taxon has important consequences for the resulting inferences and thus queries for phenotypes across the taxonomy.

This page assumes that taxa are represented as OWL individuals, and the taxonomy is a tree of member_of/has_member relationships. For example:

Ictalurus_punctatus member_of Ictalurus member_of Ictaluridae member_of Siluriformes