Re: Specifiying that an individual has a set of values

Is this what you are looking for?

(with-ontology example ()
	     ((class !breast-cancer :partial)
	      (individual !tumor1 (type !breast-cancer))
	      (individual !tumor2 (type !breast-cancer))
	      (individual !tumor3 (type !breast-cancer))
	      (class !increase-in-breast-cancer-disease-free-survival :partial)
	      (individual !increase-in-brca-dfs-1 (type !increase-in-breast- 
cancer-disease-free-survival))
	      (object-property !refers-to (inverse-of !is-referred-to-by))
	      (equivalent-classes
	       (restriction !is-referred-to-by (has-value !increase-in-brca- 
dfs-1))
	       !breast-cancer))
	   (describe-entity !increase-in-brca-dfs-1))
=>

Individual http://example.com/#increase-in-brca-dfs-1
All Types: ex:increase-in-breast-cancer-disease-free-survival
Direct Types: ex:increase-in-breast-cancer-disease-free-survival
!ex:refers-to: !ex:tumor2, !ex:tumor3, !ex:tumor1

RDF/XML attached.

Could I ask what's the idea you're trying to implement (I'm just  
curious)

-Alan



On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Matt Williams wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> I don't think this is possible, but thought I would ask.
>
> I am trying to define an ontology which discusses both some cancers  
> and changes in survival due to the cancers. I am interested in  
> "prototypical" cancers rather than individual people's tumours.
>
> I have a T-Box which defines certain classes of cancer, which is  
> ok. Then I have some of these prototypical instances, which is also  
> ok.
>
> The problem comes when I try and discuss changes in survival. I  
> have a class of "Increase in Breast Cancer Disease Free  
> Survival" (and others of Decrease and No change). However, what I  
> would like to to say is that an individual in this class refers to  
> all of the prototypical instances of breast cancer.
>
> At the moment, I have to do this manually; I would like to be able  
> to state that an individual in "Increase in BrCa DFS" is linked by  
> the "refersTo" property to every instance in the "Breast Cancer"  
> class.
>
> Has anyone else had an issue like this? Or does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Matt
>
>
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