Add XCMS object as data to EDAM Ontology

[hechth]

In order to annotate tools with metadata, suitable EDAM ontology terms are very valuable. I couldn't find any term which would describe the summarized experiment or XCMS experiment object - would it be possible to add a suitable term to the EDAM ontology? Thanks very much!

[jorainer]

good point - I'll have a look into EDAM and bring it also to Bioc.

[jorainer]

Having a quick look I am wondering: is it possible to annotate multiple EDAM terms to a e.g. SummarizedExperiment? We will for examples have:

• feature metadata (information on measured entities; maybe data_0842 )
• sample annotation (could be data_3113)
• abundance estimates (seems such a generic term does not yet exist in EDAM).

[hechth]

No, there is no way how to have one edam term map to multiple others I think. The other option would be to describe XCMS by using all of these terms basically.

[sneumann]

The xcms:multipleTerms annotation is not a limitation of EDAM. bio.tools or Workflowhub or the Bioschemas-beefed-up xcms Vignette could (untested!) allow to annotate a list of EDAM terms . Yours, Steffen