Firstly, gentle reader, don't panic. If you don't understand this, don't
worry. Lesley and I can thrash it out in a pub on Wednesday :-)
I see the PPS96 glossary as a collection of, say, 300 terms. Some of
those will have higher terms (e.g. tyrosine ISA aminoacid). All higher
terms should therefore have lower terms. Therefore tyrosine should
somewhere have a field <term type="superordinate concept">aminoacid</>.
Similarly 'aminoacid' should have a set offields like:
<term type="subordinate concept">tyrosine</>
<term type="subordinate concept">tryptophan</>
etc.
IMO it is the job of the software to reveal any inconsistencies here and to
generate a self-consistent structure. At the present, don't worry and we
will provide either a simple template or a tool to load these into the
glossary (or both).
P.
Peter Murray-Rust, Glaxo Research & Dev. (pmr1716@ggr.co.uk); (BioMOO: PeterMR)
Birkbeck College, ubcg09q@cryst.bbk.ac.uk, CBMT/Daresbury mbglx@seqnet.dl.ac.uk
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html