Conflicting Units of Information

[cannin]

The spec does not expressly forbid conflicting Units of Information containing controlled vocabularies of the same type. For example it is possible to define a macromolecule with both a protein (mt:prot) and RNA (mt:rna) Unit of Information associated with it. This clearly should be forbidden. Likewise it seems to be possible to specify a Macromolecule with differing cardinality Units of Information.

Reported by: stumoodie

[cannin]

I ... tend to agree ... but we have problems with the conceptual types. In particular, when we extend the vocabulary, we can have EGFR which is a receptor and an enzyme. One possibility would be to quality the vocabularies as exclusive or inclusive. Example of exclusive would be mt, pc and cardinality.

Original comment by: lenov

[cannin]

• status: open --> pending

Original comment by: lenov

[hasanbalci]

Maybe we could have a section like Guidelines or General Rules about the validity of finalized maps and this issue can be considered as part of that section.