spatial terms

[Bruskiewich, Richard (IRRI)]

Why is PATO so far away from implementation? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pankaj Jaiswal [mailto:pj37 at cornell.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:15 PM
To: POC-dev
Subject: spatial terms


Hi Everyone,

I just now started working on the leaf section and encountered the problem
on how do we represent the spatial organization. Since PATO/phenotype
attribute ontology is way off from implementation what are our rules on
this.

here are a few spatial attribute examples which I think are necessary to
describe a gene's transcript/protein expression profile or a phenotype.


first
second
third
fourth
fifth
	e.g.
	first leaf
	second leaf
	first / second internode
	first / second node
basal
uppermost ; synonym:topmost
lower
upper
	e.g.
	basal / uppermost internodes
	topmost leaves
	lower floret
	upper floret
primary
secondary
	e.g.
	primary / secondary panicle branches
	spikelets of the primary branches