- From: Larry Hunter <Larry.Hunter@uchsc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 12:17:30 -0600
- To: Tim Clark <tim_clark@harvard.edu>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:48 -0400, Tim Clark wrote: > I would also claim that data is *not useful* unless linked to and > explicated by a publication by those who derived it. You know: > "Hypothesis", "Materials and Methods", "Interpretation", etc. all the > stuff you find in peer-reviewed papers (not to mention "References")!! Personally, I agree with this. I wasn't endorsing AJ's proposal, just imploring him not to undertake a project that involved building Yet Another Idiosyncratic Ontology (pronounced YAIO!). Although this is a bit off topic, now that there are well established community processes for vetting ontologies in bioinformatics (see http://bioontology.org), I think that anyone proposing YAIO without using that process is being destructive of a fragile but promising turn of events in our field. Larry
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