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Example entry: [[Item:Q22|Parduczia sp.]] ("brown ciliate" of Beinart et al.) | Example entry: [[Item:Q22|Parduczia sp.]] ("brown ciliate" of Beinart et al.) | ||
== Q & A == | |||
; Why use a single 'interacts with' statement, with qualifiers for interaction type, instead of different properties for each interaction type? | |||
: Nature of an interaction is often not fully understood, or may have multiple facets. Coding interaction types as qualifiers allows us to stack multiple functional roles on a single interaction | |||
; What is a [[Item:Q56|placeholder taxon]]? | |||
: We would like to model taxonomic relationships ("find taxa that are members of Ciliophora") and also link out to external databases, particularly NCBI. However, there is often a discrepancy between NCBI Taxonomy and the "actual" taxonomy. | |||
: For example, the [[Item:Q22|brown ciliate]] is reported as a Parduczia sp. based on sequence analysis, but the sequences from that study are published under a placeholder "ciliate metagenome" identifier on NCBI. | |||