Category:OMP:0000214 ! cell staining phenotype

name: cell staining phenotype
def: "A microbial phenotype where a cell or cells are treated with a dye or dyes for purposes of identification and classification." [OMP:DAS]
subset: qc_do_not_manually_annotate
xref: [ APO:0000061 "colony color"]
is_a: OMP:0000000 ! microbial 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.