Another thought is to use wikipedia URL's as the identifier - there are often matches at this level of description. The downside is that you lose the superclass relations that you have in taxonomy, e.g. the ability to query for mammal, and get back all the primates, mice, rats, etc.
e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussel -Alan On May 4, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
I am inclined to create a class which is the union of all these classes and then annotate the antibody with that class.
