RE: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

M. Scott Marshall writes:

> The blog is from Benjamin Good (from Mark Wilkinson's Lab) and was
> referenced during a napkin discussion I had with Marco Roos and Ben
> about how one could best refer to a protein in text-mined triples.

Species disambiguation in text mining is harder than one might think.  A project that looks useful in this regard is Uniprot's younger sibling PRO (http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro/), which is being compiled at the Protein Information Resource at Georgetown and provides a species-independent backoff for when you don't know where your smad or rigor mortis came from.

Best wishes,
Colin.


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