[Metadata Correction]: Heuristics to improve EXTRACT taxonomic extractions #38
Description
Correction Scope
most or all records - e.g. it seems to be wrong for most or all of the records.
Metadata Record Identifier
No response
metadata field
species
Other metadata field
infectiousAgent
Term in Question
vectors and more
Error Description
EXTRACT is erroneously identifying 'vectors' and 'collections' as specific NCBI Taxonomy IDs.
Proposed Correction Type
remove value
Proposed Correction
To address this, please add a filtration step after Text2Term to ignore/drop an EXTRACT term if it is a child of:
- NCBITAXON: 2787854 - "other entries"
- NCBITAXON: 2787823 - "unclassified entries" EXCEPT if it is equal to a or a child of NCBITAXON: 408169 - "metagenomes"
Evidence or Reasoning for the Correction
No response
Additional References
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Urgency
- This is an urgent correction