- From: Marco Brandizi <brandizi@ebi.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:58:47 +0100
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- CC: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Hi all, sorry for the possible triviality of my questions, or the messed-up mind I am possibly showing... I am trying to model the grouping of individuals into sets. In my application domain, the gene expression, people put together, let's say genes, associating a meaning to the sets. For instance: Set1 := { gene1, gene2, gene3 } is the set of genes that are expressed in experiment0 (genei and exp0 are OWL individuals) I am understanding that this may be formalized in OWL by: - declaring Set1 as owl:subClassOf Gene - using oneOf to declare the membership of g1,2,3 (or simpler: (g1 type Set1), (g2 type Set1), etc. ) - using hasValue with expressed and exp0 (right?) Now, I am trying to build an application which is like a semantic wiki. Hence users have a quite direct contact with the underline ontology, and they can write, with a simplified syntax, statements about a subject they are describing (subject-centric approach). Commiting to the very formal formalism of OWL looks a bit too much... formal... ;-) and hard to be handled with a semantic wiki-like application. Another problem is that the set could have properties on its own, for instance: Set1 hasAuthor Jhon meaning that John is defining it. But hasAuthor is typically used for individuals, and I wouldn't like to fall in OWL-Full, by making an OWL reasoner to interpret Set1 both as an individual and a class. Aren't there more informal (although less precise) methods to model sets, or list of individuals? An approach could be modeling some sort of set-theory over individuals: set1 isA GeneSet set1 hasMember g1, g2, g3 ... set1 derivesFromUnionOf set2, set3 ... But I am not sure it would be a good approach, or if someone else already tried that. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance for a reply. Cheers. -- =============================================================================== Marco Brandizi <brandizi@ebi.ac.uk> http://gca.btbs.unimib.it/brandizi
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