protein identification problem

Hi all,

In the ISMB Semantic web for Life Science BOF,
an issue was raised about the ambiguity of how people
refer to a protein in the literature.

For example, let's say, you find a description such as
"JNK activates JUN" but acctually this "JNK" stands for
a bunch of proteins ("concrete entities") and JUN
also stands for a set of proteins.

This isssue is known as the "generic entitity" problem.
If you read the literature, you typically encounter these
"generic protein" names.
And there should be a mechanism that tells you how many
proteins you have for each generic name.

An ontology for generic/concrete protein names, called
"MoleculeRole Ontology" is available from
http://www.inoh.org/ontology-viewer/.
Actually, it is a DAG structured controled vocabulary (CV).
The current version covers about 4400 Uniprot IDs which means
that the CV defines generic/concrete protein relations for
more than 4400 concrete proteins.

The CV is available in OBO format (Gene Ontology native format).
http://www.inoh.org/download.html

PS.
There are some OBO->OWL converters, but some argued they didn't
fit their needs. It would be nice to know how people like to
convert an OBO ontology into an OWL file.

Best,
Ken

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Ken Ichiro Fukuda, Ph.D.
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Received on Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:20:34 UTC