[Bioc-devel] biocViews preprocessing term

[Vincent Carey 525-2265]

yes in specific, and although you did not ask it does
appear that we need some renovation of the biocViews
vocabulary.

alas i am not really clear on how modifications to the
vocabulary impact the build system.  i will take a look
at this and make a proposal momentarily.

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Vince Carey, PhD
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Harvard Medical School
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Florian Hahne wrote:

> 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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