[Open-bio-l] Re: Ontology names

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 02:41 AM, Ewan Birney wrote:

>
> Michael/David/hilmar
>
>
> i sort of emotionally understand what is going on (is this a sort of
> ontology of ontologies?

Yes.

> Or a namespace of ontology?

I guess Michael was referring to this? I'm not so concerned about 
that but that's my personal bias and doesn't mean it doesn't deserve 
as much attention.

> ) but could someone
> illustrate where a function would go that would take these tags and 
> where
> we would use them (eg in SeqIO?)
>

This mostly affects storage and queries of/using ontologies. E.g., 
in biosql, give me all tags (ontology terms) and values a particular 
bioentry is associated with. Instead of literally enumerating all 
possible terms, you ask for those in an ontology of a particular 
name, e.g. 'Annotation Keys' in this case.

I don't see yet where we would use this in e.g. SeqIO.

	-hilmar
--
-------------------------------------------------------------
Hilmar Lapp                            email: lapp at gnf.org
GNF, San Diego, Ca. 92121              phone: +1-858-812-1757
-------------------------------------------------------------