- From: Marc-Alexandre Nolin <lotus@ieee.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:29:41 -0400
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
It's true, both are just web pages, but I was also refering about DBpedia wich is the RDF version of wikipedia http://dbpedia.org/data/Hexokinase. What I wanted to point out with this is people work with concept. P19367 is the identificator to access the information about the Hexokinase concept in the Uniprot database. P19367 doesn't have a sense in itself, it is only a string of number with a letter in prefix. P19367 only have a meaning in the context of the Uniprot Database. DBpedia or something else could provide a hub for the concept that link to ressource that define this hub, because there might be many ressources from differents places. I'm ready to admit that uniprot:P19367 is Hexokinase for the homo sapiens and not all Hexokinase, but so is hgnc:4922 from the hugo database, geneid:3098 from Entrez Gene, ensembl:ensg00000156515 from Ensembl or ec:2.7.1.1 for Expasy EC. All of those describe Hexokinase for the homo sapiens. By concept, I mean that when I search for a concept, I want the information for this concept from wherever the database, Uniprot included. Disclaimer: I'm more a computer scientist than a biologist, I may have made error in the id I choose above. It could be something like this: /concept/homo_sapiens/protein/Hexokinase isDefined by uniprot:P19367 isDefined by ensembl:ensg00000156515 isDefined by ec:2.7.1.1 isDefined by geneid:3098 isDefined by hgnc:4922 Later, if I want to filter the protein search to only bring back the information from Uniprot, I can. Maybe this is far fetch for the current discussion about URI, and I'm driving away from the subject with this. Marc-Alexandre > > Note that uniprot:P19367 doesn't represent "Hexokinase", but "Hexokinase in > Homo sapiens". Here are all the hexokinases: http://tinyurl.com/2l83au. > > Other than that, how is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexokinase more of a > concept than http://beta.uniprot.org/uniprot/P19367 (could argue that both > are just Web pages) or urn:lsid:uniprot.org:uniprot:P19367? > > >
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