- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:14:12 -0400
- To: Chris Mungall <cjmungall@lbl.gov>
- Cc: Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>, HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, James Malone <malone@ebi.ac.uk>, "M. Scott Marshall" <mscottmarshall@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:27 -0700, Chris Mungall wrote: > A number of ontologies are starting to use "shortcut" relations. These > are expanded to more complex class expressions prior to OWL reasoning: > > http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5292/version/1 > http://berkeleybop.org/~cjm/obo2owl/obo-syntax.html#7 I'm curious why you are defining a "macro" language for expanding the shortcut relations. Couldn't an existing rules language be used, such as n3 rules? If not, why not? -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
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