{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/1","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/1/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/1/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/1/events","html_url":"https://github.com/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/1","id":56524392,"number":1,"title":"Statements for assertions repeatedly confirmed by multiple evidence lines?","user":{"login":"fbastian","id":3355124,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3355124?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian","html_url":"https://github.com/fbastian","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-02-04T13:11:51Z","updated_at":"2015-02-04T13:45:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Currently, when an assertion is supported by multiple evidence lines, a confidence level can be assigned to the global CI statement, based on the supporting evidence with the highest confidence. \r\n\r\nBut sometimes, as stated in the CIO paper: \"several evidence lines of low quality, produced by methods known to be noisy (e.g., yeast two-hybrid), could yield an assertion of high confidence, because they are repeatedly confirmed (e.g., with different reporter genes)\". \r\nThere is currently no CI statements allowing to capture this kind of confidence. \r\n\r\nPossible solution: create a new CI element of type `evidence concordance`, like, e.g.: `repeatedly congruent`.\r\nShould it be subclass of `congruent`, or directly subclass of `concordance of multiple evidence lines`?\r\n\r\nWith this new CI element, we could pre-composed new CI statements, e.g.: \r\n`confidence statement from repeatedly congruent evidence lines of same type, confidence high` (note how this is not called \"*best* confidence high\").\r\nThat would be equivalent to: \r\n\r\n    'confidence statement from multiple evidence lines of same type' \r\n    and ('has evidence concordance' only `repeatedly congruent`) \r\n    and ('has confidence level' only 'high confidence level')"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/comments/72856070","html_url":"https://github.com/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/1#issuecomment-72856070","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BgeeDB/confidence-information-ontology/issues/1","id":72856070,"user":{"login":"fbastian","id":3355124,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3355124?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian","html_url":"https://github.com/fbastian","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/fbastian/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-04T13:45:10Z","updated_at":"2015-02-04T13:45:10Z","body":"`repeatedly congruent` should be assigned based on evidence lines of same experimental or computational method. So, what happens when an assertion is supported by both several evidence lines \"repeatedly congruent\", and evidence lines of different types?\r\n"}}