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&projec...
You can ask "which genes encode proteins that are involved in cell cycle checkpointing?": https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist2.php?language=en&projec...
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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