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Add clarification re Basic modules #1016

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cmungall opened this issue Mar 1, 2024 · 0 comments
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Add clarification re Basic modules #1016

cmungall opened this issue Mar 1, 2024 · 0 comments

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cmungall commented Mar 1, 2024

https://oboacademy.github.io/obook/reference/release-artefacts/

The default -basic version corresponds to the -simple artefact with only 'part of' relationships (BFO:0000050)

This is potentially confusing. Most users think of "relationship" as being an edge in a graph, not as an existential restriction, so this makes it sound like we filter is-as.

Note also that releases such as uberon-basic includes quite non-basic relationships like mutually_spatially_disjoint_with. Yes, those of us who are OWL gurus know that this is an annotation assertion that is a shortcut for a complex OWL axiom. But for many users, this is just an edge that will confuse them.

The original basic profile was defined here:
https://owlcollab.github.io/oboformat/doc/obo-syntax.html#6

This is poorly written as it conflicts obo syntax relationships (non-is-a graph edges) with existential restrictions (these coincide 99% of the time). With the former interpretation the Uberon basic graph is not a DAG, violating basic. With the latter it is.

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