For one thing, they could serve as an alternative, stable identifier.
You can link up different, external identifiers, such as Entrez and HGNC:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php?prop=351&source=354
(you can probably do that elsewhere, but Wikidata should attract more ID
systems over time).
You can look up the Entrez ID:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist2.php?language=en&proje…
You can ask "which genes encode proteins that are involved in cell cycle
checkpointing?":
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist2.php?language=en&proje…
Once we get "typed quantities" (how's that coming along??), you can also
query on chromosome/region.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Derric Atzrott <datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com
wrote:
This sounds important, but what sort of queries might
someone
want to run on this data? Despite working at a bio-lab, I
am actually not terribly familiar with the human genome and
therefore the types of questions having this data on Wikidata
can answer.
Does anyone have a few example queries (don't have to be
possible to execute right now) to show what this could
be used for?
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
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