- From: Matt Williams <matthew.williams@cancer.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:12:08 +0100
- To: Owl Dev <public-owl-dev@w3.org>
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 -- http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw http://adhominem.blogsome.com/ +44 (0)7834 899570
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