Conflicting Units of Information

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SBGN PD specification

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Conflicting Units of Information #135

Open cannin opened 13 years ago

cannin commented 13 years ago

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.

Reported by: stumoodie

cannin commented 13 years ago

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.

Original comment by: lenov

cannin commented 13 years ago

status: open --> pending

Original comment by: lenov

hasanbalci commented 1 week ago

Maybe we could have a section like Guidelines or General Rules about the validity of finalized maps and this issue can be considered as part of that section.