Review and write computational definitions and descriptions for each Cat-VRS concept #196
Description
Feature description
VRS' terminology and information model describes how definitions that reflect the field's understanding of a concept are sometimes are odds with how we computational model a concept.
Terminology and information model. Definitions for biological terms may be abstract or intentionally ambiguous, often accurately reflecting scientific uncertainty or understanding at the time. Abstract and ambiguous terms are not readily translatable into a representation of knowledge. Therefore, the specification begins with precise computational definitions for biological concepts that are essential to representing sequence variation. The VRS information model specifies how the computational definitions are to be represented in fields, semantics, objects, and object relationships.
As a result, concepts within VRS tend to have both a general description (highlighted as yellow), included on readthedocs, as well as a computational definition (highlighted as red), included within the schema. For example, Allele:
Often, Cat-VRS concepts only include a computational definitions. In this Issue, we will review computational and general descriptions of our current concepts and update documentation and schema with any agreed upon changes.
We will draft changes in this Google Doc to collaborate during GKS Think Tank, before opening a Pull Request.
Contribution
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