regulation by pattern

[dosumis]

"regulation of X by regulation of Y" terms follow a number of patterns,

e.g.

I think they should all follow the pattern:

'regulation of X' and regulates some Y

e.g.

The regulation of Y term is unnecessary as the pattern makes it an inferred superclass (see above).

[tberardini]

Makes sense to me.

[tberardini]

Who would implement this pattern and fix existing terms? Can someone assess the scope by a clever query (terms and their current logical defs) and attach the results please? Perhaps not a manual, one-by-one job but done computationally?

[ukemi]

This makes sense to me too. I thought this was what @tberardini , @cmungall and I had agreed on before. I wonder how the others crept in. I remember there was some question about directionality of the inferences when we discussed this before, ie there was an issue about which process was the regulator and which was the target, so we should look carefully at that again. @cmungall do you remember?

[dosumis]

• TODO: Specify design pattern
• TODO: Build a table to specify all terms that should follow the pattern.
  • TODO Find a list of terms to apply the pattern to. This probably needs to be done lexically (at least in part), by searching for 'regulation by' in the label.
• Use table to automate retrofit (via SCOWL?)

(see #12995 for precedent)

[pgaudet]

related to #13166