- From: kei cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:26:28 -0400
- To: larry.hunter@uchsc.edu
- Cc: "Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)" <Michael_Miller@Rosettabio.com>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Larry, Thanks for the clarification. I agree that it would be great to have an OWL version of MGED-ML (at least for experimental descriptions) Best, -Kei Larry Hunter wrote: >On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:54 -0400, kei cheung wrote: > > >>Hi Michael et al, >> >>Is there a converter available which can take existing datasets in >>mage-ml format and convert them into mged-owl format? >> >> > >These are two different things. An MAGE-ML dataset describes gene >chips, hybridizations to them (e.g. single measurements), and >experiments (e.g. collections of hybridizations in different >conditions). The MGED ontology (now in OWL!) is used to specify values >in several fields of an MAGE-ML record describing aspects of the chips, >hybridizations and experiments. There is not (to my knowledge) an OWL >way of expressing all of the information in an MGED-ML record. For >example, spot intensities are just floats and sequences are just >strings. Moving to a completely OWL-specified record what I was >suggesting might be something the MGED consortium could be interested in >taking on (or at least helping with). > >Larry > > >
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