renaming request for PO:0009002 : cell

Pankaj Jaiswal pj37 at cornell.edu
Tue May 16 11:19:26 EDT 2006


Hi Everyone,

I am requesting a renaming of the term
PO:0009002 : cell
to
Plant Cell.

Thus making it more intuitive which also avoids usage of the same term 
name in GO and other ontologies, where they refer it as a generic cell.

The suggestion came up while talking to Barry Smith from Univ of 
Buffalo. He is one of the leading ontology expert.

If agreed, I also suggest rewording the definition as well.

Current definition:
	Structural and physiological unit of a living organism; it (i.e., plant 
cell) consists of protoplast and cell wall; in nonliving state, of cell 
wall only, or cell wall and some nonliving inclusions.

Suggested definition:
	Structural and physiological unit of a plant, it consists of a 
protoplasm and cell wall; in non living state, of cell wall only, or 
cell wall and some non living inclusions.


-Pankaj





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