Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

Oh, I see. The link to this other page should be mentioned in the comments 
of the original wiki page, since it is rather unlikely that a researcher 
that wants to quickly update the protein box has the motivation to find out 
how he can actually reach that other page.

~~ Matthias

>
> The Protein Box Bot [1] inserts templates based on the geneid that is
> given to it, in particular for that page it inserts a template from
> another page [2]. Editing that page customises the output that is seen
> in the infobox on that page. It should be relatively simple to take
> the pages like [2] and retrieve semantic information from them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:PBB&action=edit
> [2] 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:PBB/1605&action=edit
>
> 2008/7/14 Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>:
>> It is not surprising that the protein/gene information is missing from
>> DBpedia. Looking at
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dystroglycan&action=edit
>> it seems like this information is not held in the source of the wiki 
>> page.
>> Maybe someone with better knowledge about Mediawiki could explain how 
>> this
>> works and how the information could be harvested by DBpedia? I am 
>> planning
>> to write a documentation for the DBpedia developers that could help them
>> improve the representation of biomedical wiki entries in DBpedia (such as
>> creating direct links to the URIs of Uniprot-RDF). This could also be a
>> helpful addition.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matthias Samwald
>> DERI Galway, Ireland // Semantic Web Company, Austria
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Ansell" 
>> <ansell.peter@gmail.com>
>> To: "w3c semweb hcls" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
>> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:48 AM
>> Subject: Re: 'Gene WIki' announced
>>
>>
>>>
>>> When Francois Belleau was investigating integrating the infobox
>>> information into Bio2RDF he found that the infoboxes were missing in
>>> the dbpedia database. Not sure if that changed since he last checked.
>>>
>>> It would be very valuable to have the information from infoboxes and
>>> the gene-wiki templates in dbpedia. Might need to do a custom parser
>>> for the gene-wiki templates if they aren't similar to infoboxes.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> 2008/7/14 Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>:
>>>>
>>>> According to http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Datasets#h18-11, DBpedia contains
>>>> data
>>>> extracted from infoboxes (which should include gene/protein infoboxes).
>>>>
>>>> -Kei
>>>>
>>>> Matthias Samwald wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems like the protein/gene infoboxes are not reflected in DBpedia,
>>>>> since the information is not held in conventional infoboxes (as far as 
>>>>> I
>>>>> have understood).
>>>>>
>>>>> Compare
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dbpedia.org/page/Dystroglycan
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystroglycan
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kei Cheung" <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
>>>>>
>>>>> What about DBpedia (http://dbpedia.org)?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Kei
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 

Received on Monday, 14 July 2008 10:01:55 UTC