- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:19:19 +0100
- To: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
>>>>> "MK" == Marijke Keet <keet@inf.unibz.it> writes: MK> Lack of sufficient knowledge about a particular (biological) entity is MK> a sideshow, not an argument, to the issue of distinguishing real proteins from MK> their records. I agree. The argument is that it's very hard to describe what you mean by a "protein". We almost certainly don't mean a protein molecule. We might mean a type of protein. But then we don't know whether two protein molecule are actually of a given type. My questions are how often do we want to refer to a protein, rather than a record about a protein? And who is responsible for ascribing a ID to a specific type of protein. In practice, in bioinformatics, the answer to this is a) we don't and b) uniprot. So, while distinguishing between a uniprot record and a protein seems like a good idea, I'm not convinced it brings you anything. What are you going to do with your protein ID? Phil -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Claremont Tower Room 909, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, NE1 7RU
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