- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:55:02 +0200
- To: "M. Scott Marshall" <marshall@science.uva.nl>
- 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>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
M. Scott Marshall wrote: > 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? There are databases for nucleotide sequences (EMBL/GenBank) and for mass spec data, if you really wanted to associate any statements with such data? (Note that EMBL/GenBank sequences are referenced from UniProt.)
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