Category:OMP:0000191 ! gram stain phenotype

name: gram stain phenotype
def: "A cell staining phenotype where microorganisms are grouped based on their ability to retain crystal violet stain when decolorized with an organic solvent such as ethanol." [ISBN:978-0-07-340240-6, ISBN:978-0077292812, OMP:DAS]
subset: qc_do_not_manually_annotate
xref: [ SNOMEDCT:385484003 "Gram stain"]
is_a: OMP:0000214 ! cell staining phenotype
comment: This is a high-level term whose primary purpose is to organize terms beneath it in the ontology, and we expect that it will not be used for direct annotations. Please consider using a more specific term to annotate each phenotype.