Yongqun Oliver He

@lnanderson thanks for your comment. MeSH terms are usually not used for ontology reusing purpose because it is not considered as a reference ontology. The MeSH definition is still discussable....

For example, we may say that Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a prognostic biomarker in chronic kidney diseases (ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5104645/ ). In this case, the EGF is a protein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermal_growth_factor...

This is the 'biomarker' definion in OPMI, which I would suggest using: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OPMI_0000445 "Definition: A material entity that has a measurable quality or process profile(s), which can be used as...

The newly proposed is a better solution. The definition provided by the reference source and NCIT is a common one that has been widely cited. We have also quoted and...

@lnanderson @djinnome Thank you for your suggested changes and references. These are very helpful. We are currently discussing and incorporating your provided information, suggestions, and comments. I expect that this...

As shown here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6416855 "The human age is classified into four categories as Child (0-12 years), Adolescence (13-18 years), Adult (19-59 years) and Senior Adult (60 years and above) which...

Since virion is a virus particle, I think we do not need to worry about virion in terms of taxonomy. However, we need to worry about where to put virus...

I see. It is not an easy task. I am happy to have contributed to the community effort as an ontobee developer. I am also happy to accept alternative approaches.

@matentzn Sounds great. Thanks!

I would like to say that Ontobee (or OntoBee) is a default OBO ontology linked data server. This was a major reason and motivation of how Ontobee was initiated as...