LEGO Curation
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Agenda
Logins
- Everyone set up okay?
LEGO Principles
- Pieces of biological information are connected using a controlled vocabulary of relations
- Assertions made using these relations are supported with evidence statements, i.e. ECO codes, references
LEGO at its Most Basic
- Molecular functions are enabled_by genes/gene products
- Molecular functions may be part_of larger biological processes
- Molecular functions occur_in some location
- Subcellular locations are part_of some larger anatomical structure
LEGO Beyond Basics
- Some biological processes and molecular functions regulate other biological processes
- The regulation may be positive or negative and may be 'direct' or 'indirect'
- Some biological processes and molecular functions are causally upstream of other biological processes
- Sometimes you don't necessarily know how two things are related - 'causally upstream of or within'