Re: Minutes from Monday's Linked Life Data (BioRDF / LODD) teleconference

(apologies for not looking it up myself - I'm still stuck without internet access at home, and my cell provider in Spain cut me off from high-speed cell access too, due to over-use... So I'm basically dial-up speed on my phone... And this little seen isn't great for exploring ontologies!)



Jim McCusker <james.mccusker@yale.edu> wrote:

Actually, we've switched over to generating subproperties of
sio:has_predicate, so I'm glad you suggested the same thing.

Jim

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mark <markw@illuminae.com> wrote:
> Hmmmm... what's the range of that predicate? It's a bit like the SIO "has
> attribute", where you need to be sure to explicitly type what's at the other
> end to do "useful" reasoning. We're just concluding a project where we use
> species-of-origin to restrict the choices the SHARE query resolver can make
> when it queries the SADI registry. (the query requires the discovery of a
> BLAST service, and it will chose the right one based on the species that the
> sequence is derived from...)
>
> Similar problem? if so, let me know and I'll post the model we came-up with
> a few weeks ago... Maybe we can converge on a common solution?
>
> Cheers all!
>
> M
>
>
>
> "M. Scott Marshall" <mscottmarshall@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We had an interesting discussion with Jim McCusker about Linked Data /
>> RDF representations of MAGE-TAB and some issues, such as choices of
>> predicates to make describe a human sample.
>>
>> how to encode "is a sample originating from human"
>> closest now is "has characteristic"
>>
>> Jim showed us some linked data versions of MAGE-TAB containing
>> descriptions and data of studies. Very nice!
>>
>> The minutes are here:
>> http://www.w3.org/2012/04/23-HCLS-minutes.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Scott
>>
>



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Jim McCusker
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Yale School of Medicine
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