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The $24 Poor Man’s Social Media Expression Pattern Database (PoMaSoMeExpPaDa)

Started by tharris · 9 months ago

Expression pattern images are some of the most information-rich data housed at model organism databases. They are time consuming to generate. They are time consuming to collect and annotate.
Moreover, copyright restrictions mean that many images remain captive at publisher’s webs ... Continue reading »

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  • Maybe you should consider formatting your tags using machine tags.

    Machine tags have a namespace, a predicate and a value. The namespace defines a class or a facet that a tag belongs to ('geo', 'flickr', etc.) The predicate is name of the property for a namespace ('latitude', 'user', etc.) The value is, well, the value.


    A tag as ifg-1 has not much meaning in itself, but a tag in the format wormbase:gene=ifg-1 has already a lot of semantic meaning, allows for other machine tags in the same style, like wormbase:strain=UL912 or flybase:gene=CG42321, and allows for more precise querrying via the API.
  • Jeroen -

    Great suggestion! I'll update our tags to reflect this.

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