- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:52:15 +0200
- To: Marijke Keet <keet@inf.unibz.it>
- 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>
Marijke Keet wrote: > "...due to lack of knowledge...": and I presume it may be that > biologists disagree also because of insufficient knowledge about the > protein, and/or its (over-)simplification, that is, comparing apples and > oranges at a too coarse level of granularity. Moreover, that we don't > know enough about all (types of) proteins and that biologists argue > every now and then does not justify conflating the actual proteins and > their representations in an information system. Lack of sufficient > knowledge about a particular (biological) entity is a sideshow, not an > argument, to the issue of distinguishing real proteins from their records. Lack of knowledge is certainly a problem, but I suspect that even if we had perfect knowledge, no one single definition for each protein would emerge, as the most suitable definition will often depend on what your job is...
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