Hi, Erick, hi Chris, I completely agree with Chris. The most important thing is the formal definition of the relation. Stick a name to it is more or less arbitrary. The problem with derives_from was mainly that it was unclear whether there really are derives_from relations of the continuation type. I think they do not exist. We have merely cases of fission and fusion. The list of alternatives you give hints that maybe there might be a misuse of derives_from, but that should be checked case by case. Best, Mathias Chris Mungall schrieb:
I would first define the relation you want, then decide on the name.
extracted_from and isolated_from appears incorrect, unless you want to scope your ontology to describing only proteins extracted in experiments.
It would seem that a protein may not fit the criteria of a biologically significant amount of matter of a whole organism. In fact, in an example somewhat analagous to Mathia's, there may be no continuation of matter in the case of viruses.
depending on your definition of "encoded_by" and a more rigid definition of SO:gene, it may be sufficient to represent the partonomic relations between genes and organisms.
you can request relations on the ro tracker obofoundry.org/ro
btw, http://www.cellcycleontology.org/ontology/cco.owl is a dead link
On Aug 14, 2007, at 5:39 AM, Erick Antezana wrote:
Dear all,
currently, our proteins in CCO are linked to their respective organisms by using the relationship "derives_from"; however, as Mathias makes references in one of his articles [1], this relationship should be carefully chosen and it seems that CCO is misusing it. In that sense, we were wondering whether another relationship could be proposed? such as:
extracted_from? comes_from? occurs_in? isolated_from? appears_in_organism?
cheers, Erick
[1] http://www.ifomis.uni-saarland.de/Home/DerivationBookVersion1-2.pdf
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