- From: Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@idi.ntnu.no>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:12:28 +0100
- To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- CC: W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Phillip Lord wrote: > Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello Philip, All, >> >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Phillip Lord >> <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> My own feeling is that it's biology which wove the web; we're just >>> caught in the middle. What role for the web and semantics? Well, I think >>> we need a coordinated, controlled and defined way of expressing our >>> mutual confusion. I'd love to have a clear definition of gene (or >>> protein). In it's absence, a good way of expressing "err..." is probably >>> the best we can do. >>> >> I don't know whether the BioPAX Level 2 definition of protein is the >> most useful one, but at least it sounds clear to me: >> >> protein = anything containing exactly one polypeptide chain >> >> Clear enough? >> > > > So insulin is not a protein, wheras a dipeptide is? > indeed; insulin is a protein complex, and a dipeptide, following this and other similar definitions, is a protein. > Besides which, the issue being discussed here is one of equality. When > are two proteins the same protein? > only when 2 = 1. vQ
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