[cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Miller
Hi, As discussed at the last CellML meeting, there are some models which reference both the paper about the model, and a reference about the biology. Since there is no way to determine between them, this creates problems for CellML metadata processing tools which want to identify the paper abo

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-28 Thread Matt
I don't think this is a good idea. - I think bioentity should be depreciated, it has not intrinsic semantic value. - If it is used currently, it should be left as its current minimum specification which is to label and point to other bioinformatics database IDs. - The problem is not 'biologically

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Miller
Matt wrote: > I don't think this is a good idea. > > - I think bioentity should be depreciated, it has not intrinsic semantic > value. > It does, unfortunately, seem to usually target a literal node at the moment. It would be nice for this to at least be a resource, which could provide furthe

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-28 Thread Melanie Nelson
Wow, I haven't posted to this list in a long time... But I feel compelled to give a little advice as someone who's spent a lot of time integrating biological information and therefore has made a lot of mistakes! By all means, have a best practice encouraging people to use the GO cellular_component

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-28 Thread Matt
Melanie! Thanks for your thoughts. You are right about the mess mapping to different ontologies and vocabs produces. We have been working on trying to integrate explicitly with biopax (http://www.biopax.org/ states and generics proposal - level 2 was too limiting) in the hope that other databases

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
Sorry to step-in as well :-) We've been playing with annotations for a while. As you know, SBML Level 2 Version 1 annotation scheme was CellML metadata, and we derived the current RDF scheme from it. The initial reason to get away from CellML metadata was precisely the PubMed issue. Many models ar

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: > We have been working on > trying to integrate explicitly with biopax (http://www.biopax.org/ > states and generics proposal - level 2 was too limiting) in the hope > that other databases (like GO, reactome, KEGG, DIP, signalling > gateway, etc) get dragged along

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Matt
By all means, step in as much as possible. Can you explain in more detail or point to explanations of bqmodel:isDescribedBy? Specifically: - what is its intended meaning? - when more than one of these is defined on a resource, how is this interpreted? For example: is there some precedence implied

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Matt
On 3/29/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: > > > We have been working on > > trying to integrate explicitly with biopax (http://www.biopax.org/ > > states and generics proposal - level 2 was too limiting) in the hope > > that other databases (like G

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: >> BioPAX annotatation scheme is very fragile and in practise almost >> unusable. > > How is that? Because the annotation is free-form. I can use UniProt, uniprot, Uni-Prot etc. > That was always going to wash out in practice. I'm not sure a rule for > generatin

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: > Can you explain in more detail or point to explanations of > bqmodel:isDescribedBy? You can find some explanations at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/compneur-srv/miriam-main/mdb?section=qualifiers Note tha qualifiers are optional to be MIRIAM-compliant. I personaly th

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Matt
On 3/29/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: > > > Can you explain in more detail or point to explanations of > > bqmodel:isDescribedBy? > > You can find some explanations at: > > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/compneur-srv/miriam-main/mdb?section=qualifiers

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
> So there is no simple way to determine if this is a reference to a > journal article except through interpreting the URI? Exactly. But this interpretation is unambiguous, so this is not a problem. This does not require more work than parsing an XML element , with the exception that you do not

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-29 Thread Matt
On 3/30/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So there is no simple way to determine if this is a reference to a > > journal article except through interpreting the URI? > > Exactly. But this interpretation is unambiguous, so this is not a problem. > This does not require more wor

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-30 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: > In those cases, for example bqs, where the object of the reference is > indeterminate or not of interest, it would be helpful to be able to > filter metadata without having to have knowledge of the values (in > this case reference URI schemes or identifiers) to

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-30 Thread Matt
On 3/30/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: > > > In those cases, for example bqs, where the object of the reference is > > indeterminate or not of interest, it would be helpful to be able to > > filter metadata without having to have knowledge of th

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-30 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: >>> In those cases, for example bqs, where the object of the reference is >>> indeterminate or not of interest, it would be helpful to be able to >>> filter metadata without having to have knowledge of the values (in >>> this case reference URI schemes or identifi

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-30 Thread Matt
Hi Nicolas, On 3/30/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Matt wrote: >>> In those cases, for example bqs, where the object of the reference is >>> indeterminate or not of interest, it would be helpful to be able to >>> filter metadata without having to have kno

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-03-31 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
> I misunderstand the scope of the property isDescribedBy. I also don't > think reverse engineering URIs to obtain meaning is a good practice. But ... you do not reverse engineer anything. The URI IS the meaning. In the English dictionary, there is a word "publication", with a definition. Well, i

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-04-01 Thread Matt
Hi Nicolas. Thanks for the in-depth reply. On 3/31/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I misunderstand the scope of the property isDescribedBy. I also don't > > think reverse engineering URIs to obtain meaning is a good practice. > > But ... you do not reverse engineer anything.

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-04-01 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
>> > I misunderstand the scope of the property isDescribedBy. I also don't >> > think reverse engineering URIs to obtain meaning is a good practice. >> >> But ... you do not reverse engineer anything. > > Though you have to pull apart the URI correctly to discover the key. You mean to split urn:M

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-04-02 Thread Matt
On 4/1/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I misunderstand the scope of the property isDescribedBy. I also don't > >> > think reverse engineering URIs to obtain meaning is a good practice. > >> > >> But ... you do not reverse engineer anything. > > > > Though you have to pull

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-04-02 Thread Nicolas Le Novere
> You will always need to pull apart the 'URI' (table2 MIRIAM document) > to retrieve the datatype and identifier. Well, yes you have to recognise what belongs to the data-type and what belong to the identifier. But you do that all the time in RDF anyway. And beside, we do it for you and can retur

Re: [cellml-discussion] Biological and other non-model citations in CellML metadata?

2007-04-02 Thread Matt
On 4/3/07, Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You will always need to pull apart the 'URI' (table2 MIRIAM document) > > to retrieve the datatype and identifier. > > Well, yes you have to recognise what belongs to the data-type and what > belong to the identifier. But you do that all t