Re: [Gusdev-gusdev] Controlled Vocabularies data

[Joan M. <ma...@pc...>]

Hi Arnaud,

>
> We want to generate gene, RNA and protein entries and link them to 
> corresponding gene, RNA and protein feature entries. This is done 
> using the Gene, RNA and Protein Instance entries.
> There is a FK to a GeneInstanceCategory entry in GeneInstance and this 
> can not be null. The same for RNAInstance and for ProteinInstance, I'm 
> not sure what they are for.


We originally created GeneInstanceCategory, RNAInstanceCategory and 
ProteinInstanceCategory to describe using a controlled vocabulary the 
"origin" of a particular instance at the central dogma level.
For example, the origin of a particular RNAInstance (or RNASequence) 
might be "assembly" and another RNAInstance of that RNA might be "mRNA" 
(perhaps a NCBI RefSeq).  

We have no plans to populate these three controlled vocabularies right 
now so you may want to create their vocabularies tailored to your own use.


Joan