[Obo-discuss] Labeling a mature mircoRNA

[Todd D. <tod...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am very new to RDF and have a question about what class I should use to
type an miRNA sequence.  My apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask
this question.  I tried posting to the the SO list (song-devel) but
received no reply after a day.  Please let me know if there is a better
place to ask this question.

I am currently working on a project to examine conservation of microRNA
targets in fly synaptic genes.  To do so, I am converting a number of
sources to RDF.  One of my source contains mirbase.org mirbase accession
ids, like MIMAT0020819 (
http://mirbase.org/cgi-bin/mature.pl?mature_acc=MIMAT0020819).  I would
like to indicate that the entity named by this accession is a mature miRNA.

I believe http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_0000276 (class miRNA) might
correspond to the same notion of mature microRNA used by mirbase.org.
 Quoting from http://mirbase.org:

Each entry in the miRBase Sequence database represents a predicted hairpin
portion of a miRNA transcript (termed mir in the database), with
information on the location and sequence of the mature miRNA sequence
(termed miR).

A related question I have is whether (
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_0001244) pre-miRNA would correspond to
the 'mir' notion in mirbase.org.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Best regards,
Todd

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Todd DeLuca
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http://wall.hms.harvard.edu/