specimen collection

5/31/2012: This process is not necessarily an acquisition, as specimens may be collected from materials already in posession, 6/9/09: used at workshop

Philly2013: The specimen_role for the specimen is created during the specimen collection process., Note: definition is in specimen creation objective which is defined as an objective to obtain and store a material entity for potential use as an input during an investigation., label changed to 'specimen collection process' on 10/27/2014, details see tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/716/, Philly2013: A specimen collection can have as part a material entity acquisition, such as ordering from a bank. The distinction is that specimen collection necessarily involves the creation of a specimen role. However ordering cell lines cells from ATCC for use in an investigation is NOT a specimen collection, because the cell lines already have a specimen role.

specimen collection process

drawing blood from a patient for analysis, collecting a piece of a plant for depositing in a herbarium, buying meat from a butcher in order to measure its protein content in an investigation

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

Bjoern Peters

• whole organism preparation