Great, thanks. This was my impression, but was starting to get confused.
I've read the Smith paper some time ago ... I'll go back and look again at the inheres_in property. I have read about inheres_in in the other papers on EQ -- but wasn't sure where it is defined.
Thanks again,
Shawn
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Hilmar Lapp hlapp@nescent.org wrote:
On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Shawn Bowers wrote:
BTW. I'm a bit confused though -- is EQ an OWL ontology? Or is it purely an abstract model that prescribes a convention for defining qualities, with concrete quality and entity ontologies being drawn from other places (like PATO)?
It's an abstract model. It can be expressed and implemented in OWL (and also in OBO). It is model for defining phenotype classes (though indeed in this model an EQ phenotype (class) is a subclass if a quality (class)). The quality and entity terms are drawn from ontologies that exist independently of (and in part predate) EQ.
Where is the inheres_in property defined?
In RO (the Relations Ontology, see Smith et al, 2005).
-hilmar
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