Merge pull request #926 from ontodev/cmungall-patch-4

Clarify format of terms.txt file
ontodev · Nov 8, 2021 · 1171b0d · 1171b0d
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         --term-file uberon_module.txt \
         --output results/uberon_module.owl
 
-See <a href="/examples/uberon_module.txt" target="_blank">`uberon_module.txt`</a> for an example of a term file. Terms should be listed line by line, and comments can be included with `#`. Individual terms can be specified with `--term` followed by the CURIE.
+See <a href="/examples/uberon_module.txt" target="_blank">`uberon_module.txt`</a> for an example of a term file. Terms should be listed line by line in either CURIE form or full IRI, and comments can be included with one or more whitespace characters after the term followed by `#` and then the comment.
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+Alternatively, individual terms can be specified with `--term` followed by the CURIE (or full URI).
 
 The `--method` options fall into two groups: Syntactic Locality Module Extractor (SLME) and Minimum Information to Reference an External Ontology Term (MIREOT).