- From: M. Scott Marshall <marshall@science.uva.nl>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:29:28 +0200
- To: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- CC: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, wangxiao@musc.edu, 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>
Eric Jain wrote: > > Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> There are proteins, and there are records about proteins. Records come >> in different formats. If I make a statement using this url, is is >> about the record? or the protein? How should the agent come to know? > > The concept of "protein" is abstract enough that anything you might ever > say about any specific protein can be said to be just a "record", so I > don't see the point in making the distinction? It should be possible for people to make statements specifically about the DNA, mRNA, amino acid sequence, (in organism human, mouse,..), NMR, MS(mass spec), etc. that is associated with a protein in addition to saying something general about the protein itself e.g. "P53 plays an important role in apoptosis". Although I understand that there are ways to refer to such info in Uniprot (kudos for that!), wouldn't it be better to use URI's that point explicitly into an ontology than to use/create a URI system that we will eventually want to (re)map to such an ontology anyway? -scott -- M. Scott Marshall http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall http://adaptivedisclosure.org
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