Ontology approach and model entity relationship

[DougManuel]

Version 2 has a range of objectives include better support for:

• Different specimen types. Extend beyond wastewater to include other environmental specimens (i.e. air and surface).
• More robust reporting of variants and mutations, including supporting different naming nomenclature (Panoglin and Nextclaid).
• Quality control and quality assurance, including the ability to report calibration curves
• Multilanguage support
• Improved data sharing and validation specifications
• Improved ability to generate variable names and derived measures for wide tables from long tables
• Improved versioning and documentation

These changes necessitate an improved ontology approach and entity relationship.

[mathew-thomson]

As an update on this issue:

• Version 2 now includes compartmentID which allows users to specify whether a measure is done from air, surface, water, or population samples.
• The ability to measure mutations and variants (adding more presently), and record lineage and nomenclature (WHO, Panoglin, and Nextclade).
• Quality control measures and reporting are now built into the model, and we are looking at what parameters of a calibration curve are the most important to record.
• Multi-language support is built into the structure, with French being the only language besides english that is currently active.
• Data sharing and validation specifications are in development.
• Wide name metadata and variable generation are currently being developed and tested.
• Improved versioning and documentation are in the works.

As far as an improved ontology approach and entity relationship, however, what next steps did you have in mind, @DougManuel?

[DougManuel]

That is all for now. We can make formal links to existing ontologies. However, I think that should wait for after V2 is completed.