Hi, We're making a concerted effort to move operations to BASE 2 now...
I have been reading up on annotating experiments in preparation for future tab2mage export: http://base.thep.lu.se/chrome/site/doc/html/userdoc/analysis/experiments_analysis.experiments.html#experiments_analysis.magexport Dumb question: An Annotation Type such as "Age(hours)" or "body mass(kg)" when applied to a biosource will be exported as a BioMaterialCharacteristic, right? We don't have to mark/tag the Annotation Type as a 'BioMaterialCharacteristic' in some way? I guess it would be good to put all of these in an Annotation Type Category (called BioMaterialCharacteristic, for example), but that's just for convenience? And a related question: we (base admins) should create Annotation Types just for the 'leaves' in the MGED ontology, is that correct? Is there a convention for capitalisation, spaces etc? e.g. 1. DevelopmentalStage 2. Developmental Stage 3. developmental stage It's not consistent in the manual (see link above) e.g. "Age(week)" - capitalised "body mass(kg)" - lower case "body temperature (degree_C)" - an extra space before the units Has anyone made any progress importing MGED or other ontologies as a whole? While we're at it, a more advanced question: say we have a Biosource Annotation Type called OrganismPart, which is free text (or a text enum). How could you enter values from a separate anatomy ontology, so that it goes into tab2mage correctly (or perhaps MAGE-TAB at a later date)? Thanks for reading this far! cheers, Bob. -- Bob MacCallum | VectorBase Developer | Kafatos/Christophides Groups | Division of Cell and Molecular Biology | Imperial College London | Phone +442075941945 | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
