Using lists

[jdeck88]

Using lookup lists is a central part of the ontology-data-pipeline... the purpose of lists is to map generic descriptions such as "Flowering" to a more specific ontology term such as {flowering stage} (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0007616)

We need a very good description of how to implement lists since it is not obvious from the configuration directives (e.g. as explained in the home README).

[ramonawalls]

For FuTRES, we are using two types of lists:

1. Maps column headers in the incoming data to column names from the template
2. Maps trait names from the incoming data to the trait class label in the ontology

FuTRES does these using an R script, but they would normally be handled in the preprocessing step for each project.