- From: Chris Mungall <cjm@berkeleybop.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:34:51 -0700
- To: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Cc: "Kei Cheung" <kei.cheung@yale.edu>, "W3C HCLSIG hcls" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, "Matthias Samwald" <samwald@gmx.at>
On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Michel_Dumontier wrote: > The Gene Ontology says a Protein (GO:0003675) is a Thing (the entity > was removed, but then later added so the identifier wouldn't be > reused) More accurately: very early versions of the GO had a term named "protein", but this was obsoleted because it was out of scope for the GO. The term was obsoleted, but a historic record is maintained. GO does not intend to say "protein is_a thing", what you are seeing is probably an artefact of the translation of obsoletion metadata to OWL.
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