Re: [sbml-annot] negation in SBML annotations

[Stefan H. <sh...@vb...>]

Hello Neil,

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:22:01 +0100
Neil Swainston <nei...@ma...> wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
> 
> The problem with enforcing annotation is that sometimes we either  
> simply don't know what the thing is, or that we don't but we can't  
> represent it in MIRIAM-flavoured RDF.
> 
> The latter we should fix in the new annot package, but the former  
> remains a problem.

Why? 
'xxx is unknown' is a perfectly valid triplet :)
It is in my eyes a valid annotation and we should support it. We may
need to add a general MIRIAM resource which expresses the concept of
unknown, as statements like: 'xxx has unknown' are also conceivable.

Thanks,
Stefan


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