patterns for phenotypes of total amount of a sporadic process/behavior, bout length and bout number

[Clare72]

e.g. sleep -increased/decreased total sleep (time spend asleep over total time) -increased/decreased bout number -increased/decreased bout duration

see https://github.com/FlyBase/drosophila-phenotype-ontology/issues/101 discussed on upheno call 2022-06-30 add other examples to this ticket

[sbello]

MP has abnormal sleep behavior (http://www.informatics.jax.org/vocab/mp_ontology/MP:0011396)

This has children like: fragmentation of sleep/wake states (MP:0009436) abnormal circadian sleep/wake cycle (MP:0020478) narcolepsy (MP:0020478) abnormal sleep pattern (MP:0001501)

There are a number of annotations about total time asleep that are attached to either abnormal sleep pattern or abnormal sleep behavior. The MP does not currently have a term for abnormal sleep duration but it looks like we should have one.

the fragmentation term is probably close to the increased sleep bout concept

[Clare72]

We currently don't have/want this for any other behaviors than sleep in dpo right now, but I think this could potentially be used for many other behaviors, such as feeding, grooming, courtship, etc. Curators may want terms for increased/decreased total amount of the behavior (within a time interval), increased/decreased number of times the behavior happens (within a time interval) and increased/decreased (average) duration of each episode of the behavior.

[sbello]

MP has terms for abnormal/increased/decreased grooming and looking at the annotations I see notes like

male mice exhibit more bouts of grooming and longer time grooming in a splash test compared with wild-type mice (MGI:6196014)

mice exhibit increased grooming bouts and spend more time self-grooming prior to lesion formation than do wild-type mice (MGI:3759301)

number of bouts of social grooming, in which one member of the pair grooms the other, is less in 21 day old mice (MGI:5763612)

So I would agree that more general patterns where different behaviors can be used would be helpful.