Sulci: anatomical structures or spaces?

[cmungall]

FMA treats them as spaces.

In NIF GA they are perhaps implicitly structures (superficial feature implies that it is something physical not abstract)

  is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_6 ! Anatomical entity
   is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_16 ! Regional part of organ
    is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1167 ! Regional part of brain
     is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1677 ! Regional part of forebrain
      is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1700 ! Regional part of telencephalon
       is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1173 ! Regional part of cerebral cortex
        is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_940 ! Gross anatomical part of cerebral cortex
         is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1063 ! Superficial feature part of cerebral cortex
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1072 ! Anterior calcarine sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1079 ! Anterior parieto-occipital sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1086 ! Calcarine sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1368 ! Rhinal sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1422 ! Occipitotemporal sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1428 ! Parieto-occipital sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1468 ! Cingulate sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1475 ! Circular sulcus of insula ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1480 ! Collateral sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_1487 ! Lateral sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_4035 ! Central sulcus ***
          is_a NIF_GrossAnatomy:birnlex_4049 ! Regional part of calcarine sulcus ***

If we ever want to talk about genes expressed in a sulcus they cannot be immaterial.
But this would probably be unusual.

One possibility is to have parallel hierarchies for the feature and the space (this would not quite parallel sulcus vs gyrus). Best avoided.

I am tending towards the FMA classification.

Required for issue #314

[cmungall]

Note: gyri would be treated as structures

"fissure" is generally used as synonymous with "sulcus" in most AOs

[gouttegd]

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