[Ontology-editors] draft has_part announcement

David Hill dph at informatics.jax.org
Tue Jul 7 09:28:18 PDT 2009


it's all multiplication with regulates being 0.



Amelia Ireland wrote:
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> On Jul 7, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Jane Lomax wrote:
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>> Wow. Some of that seems really counterintuitive. Is this really true:
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>> A -neg_regulates-> B -neg_regulates-> C, then A -indirectly 
>> pos_regulates-> C
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>> ?
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> If you think about it, it's like two negatives multiplied together 
> making a positive, or the old 'two wrongs make a right' chestnut. ;)
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