Re: SenseLab Ontology

On Apr 7, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Huajun Chen @ Zhejiang University wrote:

>>  - The layout of http://senselab.med.yale.edu/senselab/NeuronDB/
>> ndbRegions.asp?sr=0 suggests that there is some relation between
>> principal neurons and interneurons. I don't know the biology here -
>> is there? Also, some of the interneurons in that table are principal
>> neurons in the ontology.
> NeuronDB does contain such kind of information, my programs just did
> not retrieve these data.  Is this information essential?

I don't know. I guess I am first concerned about mistakes here. The  
two things that seemed odd were that the page would show structure  
the database doesn't have (I assumed that the pages were generated  
from the database), and that the page didn't agree with the database  
(at least as reflected by the OWL) wrt which neuron cells were which,  
which would seem to indicate that there is an error on the page, or  
in the database.

If the distinction between principal and interneuron isn't important  
then perhaps it shouldn't appear in the ontology.

-Alan

Received on Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:29:40 UTC