airr-community/common-repo-wg

Determine how to use ontology definitions in the API

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We have discussed ontological terms and have agreed that species/organism is an "easy" one to solve. We use the binomial species classification. A likely candidate for the definition of this term in its entirety is the NCBI species taxonomy.

There are other more complex and important terms that we are interested in, for example "cell_subset" and/or "strain". These may come from multiple ontology definitions and may include custom terms. How do we handle this in the API.

Hello All,

This issue is covered by the Vocab/Ontology effort, so I would like to close this issue. Any objections let me know, otherwise will close after meeting Thursday.