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 too. Some seem to be.

BioPAX annotatation scheme is very fragile and in practise almost
unusable. The cross-ref are free forms, and as a consequence, Bob
cannot read the annotation added by Alice. BioPAX developers are aware of that, 
and are now moving to a URI-based systems. Cf. the work of Alan Ruttenberg
http://biopaxwiki.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/UriCvNamespaceProposalJune2006


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