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 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.

How is that?


> 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

That was always going to wash out in practice. I'm not sure a rule for
generating the URI is useful in the long run, especially if these
database produce their own URI scheme, then it becomes a less simple
task to match other data resources that don't use the biopax scheme to
the ones that use the originating databases scheme.

>
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