GAZ to INSDC country list mapping

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

In an effort to comply with INSDC reporting of sample location by country, we have created a mapping of GAZ country & region codes to their INSDC counterparts at http://www.insdc.org/country.html by using a hasDbXref:INSDC:country:[xyz] annotation on the appropriate GAZ item. Is the GAZ team interested in adding these annotations directly to GAZ? If so we have the .owl import file containing the annotations we can provide that could be easily merged.

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

The include file is at https://github.com/GenEpiO/genepio/blob/master/imports/gaz_insdc_mapping.owl
see
http://www.insdc.org/country.html
It is based on https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ , but sadly, in either case, there are no region / country-specific purls to offer.

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

This is now taken on in the GAZ project directly

[pbuttigieg]

Hi @Public-Health-Bioinformatics, where is the GAZ issue for this? We'd like to make sure things are all aligned

[ddooley]

I meant this and other request items are in a working doc. Lynn created. I'll send you the URL.
I didn't actually realize that gaz was listed as a separate ontology under: https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/gaz ; I'd just seen gaz issues under envo. I'll see if Lynn wants the work items moved to gaz issues...

[ddooley]

I've moved it to: EnvironmentOntology/gaz#15

[pbuttigieg]

Closing - GAZ doesn't seem active. I'd opt for a solution linked to geospatial data natively.