Ontology Term Resolution When to use Any time an ontology identifier is about to be written down or trusted: annotating a metadata column, filling a submission template, auditing a table someone else produced, or checking whether an ID in an old file is still current. The rule Never write an ontology ID from memory, and never accept one without checking it. Ontology IDs are memorable in form and arbitrary in detail. A plausible-looking is a real term (small intestine) that is not the liver, and nothing downstream will catch the substitution — the ID is well-formed, the ontology is right, and…