Consider a non-isomorphic mappings to NCBI Taxon database #55
Description
The NCBI taxonomy database is a database, not an ontology. As such that automatic translation includes various things that are not ideal from an ontology modeling perspective
If we were to make the OWL non-isomorphic here are some things we might change:
- change root class name Propose changing the label on the NCBI top level term to 'NCBI root' #10
- depluralize taxa common names "human" not "humans"
- exclude non-taxon entries, or rewire them to a different hierarchy
- e.g. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/search?q=sample&ontology=ncbitaxon
- metagenomes (e.g "soil metagenome")
- environmental samples, e.g http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_743727
environmental samples <archaea,phylum Candidatus Aenigmarchaeota> - random terms like "mixed sample"
- host samples, e.g. "human sample"
We could also use this as an opportunity to merge into a single ncbitaxon representation see OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io#1383