Life-stages to choose from

[dangeles]

Life-stages to choose from in the metadata should include:

**** indicate that Raymond should approve these, since some of these life-stages may have different annotations in wormbase.

Single-cell Embryo ***
2-cell Embryo ***
4-cell Embryo ***
Embryo
L1
L1 arrest
L2
L2d
Dauer
L3
L4
Young Adult
Adult
Post-egg-laying adult (unmated) ****
Post-egg-laying adult (mated) ****
Aged Adult (Animals >7 days old) ****

[Lioscro]

@raymond91125 Are these the correct terms for life stage?

[raymond91105]

Single-cell Embryo *** -> 1-cell embryo Ce
2-cell Embryo *** -> 2-cell embryo Ce
4-cell Embryo -> 4-cell embryo Ce
Post-egg-laying adult (unmated) -> post-reproductive stage adult hermaphrodite Ce
Post-egg-laying adult (mated) -> post-reproductive stage adult hermaphrodite Ce
Aged Adult (Animals >7 days old) -> 7-days post-L4 adult hermaphrodite Ce

Life stage look up here https://wormbase.org/species/all/life_stage/WBls:0000671#02--10

[Lioscro]

@raymond91105 I've been browsing through the life stage link that you posted earlier, and I only see life-stage ontologies for C elegans and Strongyloides. Is there anywhere to get the terms for the other Wormbase organisms, or are those two the only ones that have been defined?

[Lioscro]

Also working on this in branch dev-life-stages.

[raymond91125]

Likely any species-specific life stage should a subtype of the corresponding general term. When the species-specific ones don't conform to standard nomenclature, we then define new ones. Noted that the current ontology may be overloaded unnecessarily. (I haven't surveyed.)
Perhaps provide a way for the user to submit new ones (for curator consideration) when they are needed.

[Lioscro]

Here are the ones I have:
'1-cell embryo',
'2-cell embryo',
'4-cell embryo',
'Embryo',
'L1',
'L1 arrest',
'L2',
'L2d',
'Dauer',
'L3',
'L4',
'Young Adult',
'Adult',
'Post-reproductive stage adult',
'7-days post-L4 adult'