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&project=wikipedia&category=&depth=12&wdq=string%5B351%3A%22103753527%22%5D&mode=undefined&statementlist=&run=Run&label_contains=&label_contains_not=&chunk_size=10000

You can ask "which genes encode proteins that are involved in cell cycle checkpointing?":
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist2.php?language=en&project=wikipedia&category=&depth=12&wdq=claim%5B688%3A(claim%5B682%3A14817998%5D)%5D&mode=undefined&statementlist=&run=Run&label_contains=&label_contains_not=&chunk_size=10000

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@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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