Re: [BioRDF] Comments from Christoph Grabmuller on BioRDF microarray provenance

hi all,

thanks, helen, hopefully my project will provide some usage insight into how 
consistent this cross-referencing actually is.

cheers,
michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helen Parkinson" <parkinson@ebi.ac.uk>
To: "Christoph Grabmuller" <grabmuel@ebi.ac.uk>
Cc: "mdmiller" <mdmiller53@comcast.net>; "HCLS" 
<public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>; "Ravi Shankar" <rshankar@stanford.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: [BioRDF] Comments from Christoph Grabmuller on BioRDF 
microarray provenance


> Interesting question and one we've been discussing in other contexts. HGNC 
> is only valid for human genes of course, and not all species have this 
> type of sign off on ids. I would use an Ensembl id, from there you can get 
> other id cross references
>
> best
>
> Helen
>
> On 10/11/2010 10:24, Christoph Grabmuller wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM, mdmiller<mdmiller53@comcast.net>  wrote:
>>> this i've seen as more a de facto best practice than anything for
>>> identifying a sequence (but i'm not sure what you mean by a standard 
>>> input
>>> format).
>> I meant: what are valid and/or (minimally) required ways to refer to a
>> gene? Is it enough to just give the HGNC symbol? Could I instead just
>> use entrez or ensembl ids?
>>
>> C
>
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