- From: David States <dstates@bioinformatics.med.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:53:40 -0400
- To: <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Establishing prior art and an open repository of analytical strategies would be valuable. Viewed as filtering processes that operate independently of the input data source, the literature contains enormous numbers of workflows. It may be a challenge to automatically parse these out of the text though. The result of a filtering workflow will in general be independent of the order in which filters are applied. If one were to attempt to protect the result of an N step workflow, it will require N! claims. Independent of specific utility in IP law, a repository of workflows would provide an interesting window into the biomedical research process. David David J. States, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Human Genetics Director of Bioinformatics University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Tel: 734 615 5510 Fax: 734 615 6553 Email: dstates@umich.edu
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