Eric Jain wrote:
Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
There are proteins, and there are records about proteins. Records come
in different formats. If I make a statement using this url, is is
about the record? or the protein? How should the agent come to know?
The concept of "protein" is abstract enough that anything you might ever
say about any specific protein can be said to be just a "record", so I
don't see the point in making the distinction?
It should be possible for people to make statements specifically about
the DNA, mRNA, amino acid sequence, (in organism human, mouse,..), NMR,
MS(mass spec), etc. that is associated with a protein in addition to
saying something general about the protein itself e.g. "P53 plays an
important role in apoptosis". Although I understand that there are ways
to refer to such info in Uniprot (kudos for that!), wouldn't it be
better to use URI's that point explicitly into an ontology than to
use/create a URI system that we will eventually want to (re)map to such
an ontology anyway?
-scott
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M. Scott Marshall
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