[Bioc-devel] biocViews preprocessing term

[Florian Hahne]

Hi Vince,
the cellHTS and cellHTS2 package provide (mostly) preprocessing 
functionality for cell-based assays, and assigning the biocViews term 
"Preprocessing" seems to be reasonable. However, in the ontology this is 
defined as "Microarray -> Preprocessing;", and that's not really what we 
want. Shouldn't there be a general "Preprocessing" term independent of 
micro arrays. I guess this will also become interesting for many of the 
other emerging new technologies like deep sequencing. With the current 
design, it seems this is not possible, since terms have to be 
unambiguous. Is there any reasonable way of dealing with this problem 
other than adding a new term like "General Preprocessing"? And wouldn't 
it be useful to allow for terms like "Technology -> FlowCytometry 
->Preprocessing;"

Florian

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