- From: Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@idi.ntnu.no>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:20:49 +0100
- To: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com>
- CC: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>, Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>, W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello Philip, All, > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Phillip Lord > <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: > >> My own feeling is that it's biology which wove the web; we're just >> caught in the middle. What role for the web and semantics? Well, I think >> we need a coordinated, controlled and defined way of expressing our >> mutual confusion. I'd love to have a clear definition of gene (or >> protein). In it's absence, a good way of expressing "err..." is probably >> the best we can do. >> > > I don't know whether the BioPAX Level 2 definition of protein is the > most useful one, but at least it sounds clear to me: > > protein = anything containing exactly one polypeptide chain > hmm, so a mixture of all sorts of substances, incidentally *containing* exactly one polypeptide chain, would be a protein? a box *containing* exactly one polypeptide chain would be a protein? clear enough, really? i think the following, taken from stryer's biochemistry, 5e p. 41, is more resonable: "Proteins are linear polymers built of monomer units called amino acids." vQ
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