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Hello folks,

Something aired a while ago was a mechanism to annotate an element of a model with reference to the corresponding element in a previous model. This would be *really* useful for us when dealing with iterations of unmanageably big jamboree models. We put forward the idea of mixing MIRIAM and XPath, along the lines of

<species id="met1" name="myMetabolite">
<annotation> <rdf:RDF> <rdf:Description> <bqbiol:is> <rdf:Bag>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="urn:miriam:biomodels.myOldModel[//@id='met2']"/>
</rdf:Bag> </bqbiol:is> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> </annotation>
</species>

but this was poo-pooed: it's probably not a valid URI and definitely not a valid MIRIAM URI. It was suggested that we instead use something proprietary like

<mcisb:mcisb xmlns:mcisb="http://www.mcisb.org/">
<mcisb:origin xref="http://www.mcisb.org/models/myOldModel.xml[//@id='met2']"/>
</mcisb:mcisb>

I'd like to avoid this layer complexity for something which (to my eye) seems rather simple. Does anyone have an alternative idea? Or could this be brought up at the next annotationathon?

Kieran


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kieran smallbone
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manchester centre for integrative systems biology
manchester interdisciplinary biocentre
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manchester m1 7dn. uk

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