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

Hi Michael,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. MGED still has rooms for ontological 
improvement. As Larry suggested, we would have a better luck if we can 
work with the MGED consortium.

Cheers,

-Kei

Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) wrote:

>Hi Kei,
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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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>You're asking the wrong person here, but not that I know of.
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>The reason I am the wrong person is that I don't believe that MAGE-OM
>(from which MAGE-ML, MAGEJava and MAGEPerl is generated) is best
>represented as an ontology.  I believe there is much that ontologies can
>do but the best way to capture the process of performing microarray
>experiment is to call out the actual pipeline process of wet lab
>biologist processing samples, bench technicians performing the
>hybridization and scans, the bioinformaticists interpreting the scan
>data and the overall design of the experiment.  The way these different
>steps relate to each other does not, to my mind, fit best into an
>ontology model, that by calling them out as first class objects in the
>UML model and modeling their specific associations/relationships, all
>different from each other and specific to the object).
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>To be able to annotate all these objects with ontology terms is
>definitely needed but to me a separate piece.
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>Granted, if you, or anyone, wish to generate an OWL model from MAGE-OM,
>it should be possible and I would certainly be interested in the result.
>The current code to generate the MAGE-ML, MAGEJava and MAGEPerl provide
>good examples how to do this
>(http://mged.sourceforge.net/software/index.php).
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>But one could also generate a MAGECobol implementation.
>
>cheers,
>Michael
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: kei cheung [mailto:kei.cheung@yale.edu] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:54 AM
>>To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
>>Cc: Alan Ruttenberg; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
>>Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for 
>>the UMLS presentation
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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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>>Thanks,
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>>-Kei
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>>Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) wrote:
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>>>Hi Alan and All,
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>>>The MGED Ontology is now available as OWL.  There has been a recent
>>>revision to correct some of the formal problems such an early
>>>implementation has had.
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>>>http://mged.sourceforge.net/ontologies/MGEDOntology.owl
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>>>Also, the FuGO project would love any feedback, thanks for 
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>>pointing out
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>>>the upcoming workshop.
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>>>cheers,
>>>Michael
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org 
>>>>[mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
>>>>Alan Ruttenberg
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:40 AM
>>>>To: kc28
>>>>Cc: donald.doherty@brainstage.com; 
>>>>wilbanks@creativecommons.org; 'Daniel Rubin'; 
>>>>public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; 'Matthew Cockerill'
>>>>Subject: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the 
>>>>UMLS presentation
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>>>>On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:15 PM, kc28 wrote:
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>>>>>It might be time to think about how to convert mged ontology or 
>>>>>mage-ml into RDF/OWL. The following are two related articles:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v2/n1/full/msb4100052.html
>>>>>http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v23/n9/full/nbt0905-1095.html
>>>>>
>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>-Kei
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>>>>As I understand it, this is the nature of the FuGO project: 
>>>>http://fugo.sourceforge.net/
>>>>They have an upcoming workshop
>>>>http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray/General/Events/FuGO2006/index.html
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>>>>-Alan
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