Oliver Ruebenacker asks: > Consider: (a) Protein in BioPAX Level 2 (b) Protein in the Protein > Ontology (c) A class protein how it is usually understood by > biologists. > > Is it a sub class of BFO's object aggregate? Or of BFO's object? Or what > else?
I've been caught out by this sort of thing before. You want snap:MaterialEntity, which is in BFO 1.1. See: S. Schulz, M. Boeker and H. Stenzhorn, How Granularity Issues Concern Biomedical Ontology Integration. in Proceedings of the International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2008), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2008 for more details. Best wishes, Colin. DISCLAIMER: This communication (including any attachments) is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential, privileged or copyright material. It may not be relied upon or disclosed to any other person without the consent of the RSC. If you have received it in error, please contact us immediately. Any advice given by the RSC has been carefully formulated but is necessarily based on the information available, and the RSC cannot be held responsible for accuracy or completeness. In this respect, the RSC owes no duty of care and shall not be liable for any resulting damage or loss. The RSC acknowledges that a disclaimer cannot restrict liability at law for personal injury or death arising through a finding of negligence. The RSC does not warrant that its emails or attachments are Virus-free: Please rely on your own screening.
