[Psidev-ms-dev] Is a <transition> a <target> with an additional <product> ?

[Steffen N. <sne...@ip...>]

Hi,

this might be a bit provocative, but why are <transition> 
and <target> separated ? 

Why not rename <transition> to <target>,
and make the <product> optional ? This comes from 
somebody who thinks of an MRM experiment 
as a "degraded" tandemMS measurement (no offense meant).

If you run tandemMS on peptides, you might still 
want to annotate the <TargetIncludeList> with 
peptides etc, just as now the <transition>s.

To get rid of the multiple toplevel <*List>
one could have a <TargetList role="include|exclude">,
and the <TargetList> could have maxOccurs=2,
but that could make life more difficult 
for the semantic validators.

Yours,
Steffen

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