comment on "radiation ENVO:01001023"

[Bayesianworld]

In a discussion between the people working on the Radiation Biology Ontology and the (emerging) Radiation Therapy Ontology, we were interested in your class "radiation" which is located in the process taxonomy.

Our concern is that typically in radiation-oriented biology and medicine, the term "radiation" refers to continuants. We prefer the use of "irradiation" or perhaps "radiation process" or something that differentiates it from the more physics-oriented concept of "radiation".

The problem arises since this term is already defined within OBO community, it makes it difficult to map out an ontology that is unambiguous in the radiation science communities.

Thank you for your consideration of this,

Mark Phillips
[email protected]