Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

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:
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>>Hi Michael et al,
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>>Is there a converter available which can take existing datasets in 
>>mage-ml format and convert them into mged-owl format?
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>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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