- From: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:29:18 -0400
- To: Darren Natale <dan5@georgetown.edu>, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Cc: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Chris Mungall <cjm@fruitfly.org>, Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Darren, > Also, while we recognize > that there are different qualities that can be ascribed to a basically > identical biochemical entity in different structural conformations or > states of ligand binding, we are not attempting (at least in the > beginning) to describe these structural conformations or bound vs > unbound forms. Indeed, while conformation is an important quality of molecular structure, it does not fundamentally change the nature of the molecule. i.e. a protein in a bound or unbound state should still be considered the same protein. Cheers, -=Michel=-
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