[Ontology-editors] use of regulates

[David Hill]

I agree that I don't think they should be disjoint. Maybe we can find 
examples.

David

Midori Harris wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Chris Mungall wrote:
>
>> We would have to make a single explicit disjoint_from statement 
>> between RoMCOP and RoMOP to prohibit nodes from having is_a lineage 
>> in both. But I don't think we would want to do this.
>
> My gut reaction is that it wouldn't be biologically accurate to make 
> RoMCOP and RoMOP disjoint -- I can imagine an instance of regulation 
> of some MCOP that also ends up having a regulatory effect on some MOP 
> in which the MCO was involved. (Or is is_a not the right relation to 
> use for that scenario?)
>
> m
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