Eric wrote: "After talking with many folks in industry over the last several months, it is becoming quite clear that when dealing with a molecular reference, such as uniprot or entrez-gene, we should also be treating it as a form of "proxy of the thing" with something akin to transitivity"
Note that, to some degree, this is already done in the Neurocommons Knowledge Base / the Banff HCLS Knowledge Base demo. See http://sw.neurocommons.org/2007/sciencecommons.owl Property "has_peptide_sequence_described_by" -- "relates a protein's primary structure to the sequence entry in a protein record that describes it" Domain: Protein Range: Protein record Cheers, Matthias Samwald DERI Galway, Ireland http://deri.ie/ Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria http://kli.ac.at/