- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:53:27 +0200
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanr@mumble.net>
- CC: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>, Benjamin Good <goodb@interchange.ubc.ca>, Natalia Villanueva Rosales <naty.vr@gmail.com>
Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Eric Jain wrote: >> http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 does not identify an RDF >> resource, it represents our concept of some protein. > > What concept would that be? What are instances of the class of proteins > that this identifiers denotes? > > (serious question) Some resources are quite simple and straightforward to understand, e.g. http://purl.uniprot.org/uniparc/UPI00001328C5 represents a specific amino acid sequence, and e,g, http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/9606 represents a specific organism (though there are some complications there, too...) The resources in the http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/ namespace are a bit more complicated, basically it's annotation for a sequence in an organism: http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P60484 (Human) http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P60483 (same sequence, but Dog) ...but these resources may also include annotation for related sequences produced e.g. by alternative splicing: http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P00750 (Human, 3 sequences) ...provided the function of the resulting sequences are not so different that they warrant resources of their own...
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