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#135 Conflicting Units of Information

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Stuart Moodie
SBGN Issues (15)
5
2011-04-16
2011-04-14
Stuart Moodie
No

The spec does not expressly forbid conflicting Units of Information containing controlled vocabularies of the same type. For example it is possible to define a macromolecule with both a protein (mt:prot) and RNA (mt:rna) Unit of Information associated with it. This clearly should be forbidden. Likewise it seems to be possible to specify a Macromolecule with differing cardinality Units of Information.

Discussion

  • Nicolas Le Novère

    Nicolas Le Novère - 2011-04-16
    • status: open --> pending
     

  • Nicolas Le Novère

    Nicolas Le Novère - 2011-04-16

    I ... tend to agree ... but we have problems with the conceptual types. In particular, when we extend the vocabulary, we can have EGFR which is a receptor and an enzyme. One possibility would be to quality the vocabularies as exclusive or inclusive. Example of exclusive would be mt, pc and cardinality.