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skos predicates vs xref

Open cmungall opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

We have both skos-based mapping predicates

  • https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/exact_match
  • https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/narrow_match

and

  • https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/xref

We need guidance as to when to use which. I recommend even deprecating xref and forcing people to choose a more precise predicate

(note an orthogonal difference is the range, with the match predicates having a range of namedthing and xref being an iritype - but we can use edges as node properties so this shouldn't be an issue)

See also #210

cmungall avatar Jul 16 '21 00:07 cmungall

@kevinschaper - on ingest, do you have enough data to determine the match quality of most xrefs?

sierra-moxon avatar Nov 09 '21 00:11 sierra-moxon