Category:OMP:0000176 ! biofilm phenotype

name: biofilm phenotype
def: "A multi-organism phenotype dealing with the process in which microorganisms attach to and grow on a surface and produce extracellular polymers that facilitate attachment and matrix formation." [GO:0042710, OMP:WAM]
subset: qc_do_not_manually_annotate
is_a: OMP:0005116 ! multi-organism process 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.