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parent of 'life cycle stage' unclear
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Description
Uberon term
'life cycle stage' UBERON:0000105
Suggested revision and reasons
The definition of 'life cycle stage' states that it is a "spatiotemporal region". However, the parent for 'life cycle stage' is not BFO's 'spatiotemporal region', but 'processual entity', whose definition looks similar to BFO's 'process'.
I would like to know which category you understand this term to be in; could some biological process be part of a life cycle stage, or does it occupy a life cycle stage?
I'd suggest 'process' or 'spatiotemporal region' from BFO as the parent, but I'm really only looking for clarification.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the Uberon term UBERON:0000105, its definition, and its current parent, processual entity, alongside the referenced BFO categories. Resolve whether the term should be modeled as a process or spatiotemporal region before changing the ontology hierarchy; done means the parent and relation semantics are agreed and consistently updated.
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Assessment
- Domain
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- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100