Biomedical Ontology (details)

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Following this thread, there was an IAO call with Barry, Alan and myself in   which I thought there was agreement to remove 'specifically denotes', and instead   use 'denotes' only, which will have the meaning that 'generically denotes' has   now. To deal with qualities that specifically denote, we would instead use that   the quality is a concretization of' an ICE that denotes. If I recall this correctly, can we make the changes in the file? In   addition there is a 'materially denotes' relation in the file, without any metadata. Can that   be removed as well? - Bjoern

I really like the limitation of scope to 'information artifact'. This is also the way I had started to remodel the sequence ontology.  'DNA sequence information' as stored in GenBank is an information artifact. This information 'is about'  the physical primary structure of a DNA molecule. The fact that DNA molecules can be transcribed (biologically) to produce RNA molecules by the molecular machinery of a cell does not require humans to be around. Doing this gets rid of the current confusion in SO between things that happen with physical DNA, and things I can do with DNA information in my computer (gapped sequences, BLAST alignments, phylogenetic trees, etc.). - Bjoern