Hi all,
some notes on the discussion of MAGE/FUGE/FUGO and RDF.
- I think that converting the whole MAGE or FUGE into RDF is hard in
practice and maybe not so useful. The problems are:
- FUGE and MAGE are object models and should be reviewd in order to
provide an OWL modelling. For instance the use of OntologyEntry as a
pointer to an ontology term doesn't make much sense in OWL.
- FUGE/MAGE are used to represent huge quantities of data (an average
MAGE-ML file is sized some hundreds MBs) and I am not sure that current
technologies would support such requirement.
- Maybe only some aspects of a Functional Genomics models are really
needed in the context of Semantic Web. For instance telling in RDF that
an experiment has been performed to study a given disease would be
useful, telling to the whole web the concentration value of the
application of an extraction protocol maybe is more implementation specific.
- I am modelling something about microarrays, although my intent is not
to convert MAGE and to face its degree of details. I am more interested
in a less detailed knowledge representation about Microarrays, and in
the management of the knowledge that is achieved from the study of Gene
Expression.
Here an introduction about that:
http://gca.btbs.unimib.it/brandizi/mysite/phdintro
My latest version of the ontology (very draft actually), plus some notes
about the user interface I am developing:
http://gca.btbs.unimib.it/brandizi/mysite/phdv1
Cheers.
--
===============================================================================
Marco Brandizi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://gca.btbs.unimib.it/brandizi
