[DAS] Re: Our identifier doc and proposal

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> I think we're going to find that the features form a DAG and not a
> hierarchy.  Otherwise you're going to have problems classifying things
> like "genes".  In the context of genetics, a gene is a type of
> complementation group.  In the context of genomics, a gene is a
> subclass of transcription features, translation features, and
> regulatory features.
> 


Bugger. 

You are right. I'm glad you are going to sort out how to have an
extensible distributed DAG system that is easy to use. ;)