Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-04-02 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Pat Hayes wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > >> What about this statement: >> >> "Two grams of hydrogen react with 16 grams of oxygen to 18 grams of >> water" > > If I were trying to do a professional job of 'ontologizing' this, it > would be a formal rendering of

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-31 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello Wacek, All, > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk > wrote: > >> i'd agree that having non-integer *molecule numbers* sounds nonsense, >> but having non-integer *relative molecule numbers* certainly doesn

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-31 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Matthias Samwald wrote: > >>> Reaction equations describe stochastic processes, that's why you can >>> have non-integer molecule numbers >> >> I think you can't have non-integer molecule numbers because it makes >> no chemical sense. Half a molecule is a whole molecule of a different >> kind. > > Y

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-26 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Phillip Lord wrote: > Wacek Kusnierczyk writes: > >>>> I don't know whether the BioPAX Level 2 definition of protein is the >>>> most useful one, but at least it sounds clear to me: >>>> >>>> protein = anything contai

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-26 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Phillip Lord wrote: > Oliver Ruebenacker writes: > >> Hello Philip, All, >> >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Phillip Lord >> wrote: >> >>> My own feeling is that it's biology which wove the web; we're just >>> caught in the middle. What role for the web and semantics? Well, I thin

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello Philip, All, > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Phillip Lord > wrote: > >> My own feeling is that it's biology which wove the web; we're just >> caught in the middle. What role for the web and semantics? Well, I think >> we need a coordinated, controlled

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Michel_Dumontier wrote: > > And I'm trying to explain that there is no pragmatic reason to make > explicit the distinction between a biomolecule (and what we know about > it) and a database record (and what we know about the biomolecule) > unless they are actually different. hmm, since a biomolecu

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2007-11-12 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
To the maintainers of this list: consider configuring the list so that messages sent to it have a prefix like [semweb-lifesci] automatically added to the subject line, as it is often the practice with other lists. It helps filtering, sorting, and maintaining the inbox. Thank you. Wacek