- From: Kashyap, Vipul <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:06:50 -0400
- To: "Robert Stevens" <robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk>, "chris mungall" <cjm@fruitfly.org>, "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>, <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
> Chris is right, but the IS itself has no view on the matter. it does, > I believe, play some tricks inside making instances classes to do the > reasoning. What the user sees are instances. When we use the IS to > classify proteins, we have a class "p53" and we translate all the > genes in a genome into their protein and classify. In this way we > find instances of the defined proteins classes (in our case > phosphtases). it is not "real" in that the one gene is only > trnslated into one protein, but it is still an instance, it is simply > not realistic. We weren't doing syste4m bioogy! I have a feeling I am misreading this in some way. It appears that you are behind the scenes translating instances into classes anyway, so why not start with the "ontologically correct" approach of modeling genes as classes anyway? Is there a paper which discusses this mapping and the subsequent processing in more detail? Thanks, ---Vipul
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