[Data-modeling] Hormone type in the Medicine domain

[Jeff Prucher]

The "subfamily" and "subfamily of" properties on the type "receptor family"
should be a master/reverse pair -- right now they both go to unreciprocated
properties. I'd also rename "subfamily" to "subfamilies" since I presume
there can be more than one. Otherwise, the model looks good to me. I can't
help with the biological questions, alas!

Jeff Prucher

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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Faye Li
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:08 PM
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> Subject: [Data-modeling] Hormone type in the Medicine domain
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The Human Hormone and related types are ready for review on Sandbox:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/medicine/human_hormone
> 
> The new types are:
> - Human Hormone (named such to avoid mistyping of plant or 
> animal hormones)
> - Hormone Chemical Classification
> - Endocrine Gland
> - Hormone Receptor
> - Receptor Family
> 
> In the interest of getting this out there soon I'm avoiding 
> modeling more complex relationships. Related diseases are the 
> next step I think, although there's plenty more to do. I've 
> filled in some data to see how the schema fits.
> 
> A medical shout-out: I have to admit I got a little tangled 
> trying to parse the myriad of medical endocrinology info on 
> the web. Seems that even something as basic as defining the 
> types of Hormone Chemical Classification is debated: 
> Wikipedia says there are 3 kinds, whereas other web sites 
> claim 4 or 5 (adding Lipid and sometimes Sterol to the list 
> consisting of 1. amine, 2. peptide (& protein?), and 3. steroid). 
> Also, is a Hormone Receptor always or pretty much always a 
> Gene? We have a Gene type in the Biology domain that I'd be 
> more than happy to add as an Included Type if it makes sense. 
> Medical review of the type and property names would also be 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Faye
> 
> 
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