- From: Huajun Chen @ Zhejiang University <huajunsir@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:41:19 -0400
- To: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, "Luis Marenco" <luis.marenco@yale.edu>
On 4/7/07, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Oh, that's a fault of my program, it does not recognize interneuron and pricipal neuron when translating. Since the total number of interneuron is very small, I manually modify this part after the transformation. That's gonna be ok in the next version. > > If the distinction between principal and interneuron isn't important > then perhaps it shouldn't appear in the ontology. > > -Alan > >
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