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Hello Nicolas, All,

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Nicolas Le novère<lenov@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>   It surprises me that, after even Nicolas conceded the weakness of
>> MIRIAM annotations, you still insist they are perfect and only
>> "cumbersome".
>
> I never "conceded" that those annotations could not be used to identified
> species of the same "kind". I merely pointed out that they had a limited
> expressibility.

No you can not identify species, if it involves variants,
modifications and different complex formations.

>>   If a species is a pool of indistinguishable things, it is only
>> natural that two species that contain the same indistinguishable
>> things have a unique relationship and therefore require a unique way
>> of being grouped. Trying to use the same grouping scheme for
>> distinguishable and indistinguishable things does not make sense.
>
> But ... this is exactly what we do not do. Species are grouping
> indistinguishable things. Groups are grouping sets of distinguishable things.

The species are distinguishable, the objects in it are indistinguishable.

Take care
Oliver

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Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
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