Egon,

My question (without knowing the true scale of what you had) was simply to see 
if a mechanism existed that told me "which molecules at OpenMolecules are 
URI-resolvable as RDF?".

I guess having a master list that points to each (your second option) would be 
easiest to use. ANother way to put it, would be to offfer an InChi (or InChI 
URI) query service that either returned a compound if you had a record of it, 
or said "Not Found".

The curious thing of Compounds and InChI is that one can actually create new 
URIs for any imaginable compound (i.e., not even stored) that are resolvable as 
long as 1) the InChI syntax is correct, and 2) the structure defined by the 
InChI is plausible. This has some interesting consequences regarding 
virtualizing entities on the Semantic Web with structure content simply by 
giving them a InChi URI...

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Egon Willighagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 3:40 AM
To: Eric Neumann
Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Subject: Re: RDF for molecules, using InChI
 
Eric,

On 8/18/07, Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Eric Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  Thanks for the pointer-- is there a list of all the molecules you store
> > something about?
>
> Not at this moment. That would be a rather lengthy RDF doc. The number
> of molecules of which something is know is currently in the order of
> 10M. I have not taken up the challenge of hosting that.

Actually, I could make a list of some 250 molecules [1]. Should I make
one RDF file listing all triples for all molecules, or make one master
file, which points to the current RDF 'files'?

Egon

1.http://cb.openmolecules.net/inchis.php

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