Standardization discussion

Definition and intended usage
Does not apply

Current Practice
Does not Apply

Observations and Problems
BioPAX use customs properties for many relations which have a largely standard encoding across information resources. This limits the integrability of BioPAX at large, beyond the domain of Pathway Databases. A resource like BioPAX, being in RDF, is potentially directly integrable in resources such as wikipedia/dbpedia. Such potentialities should be achieved.

Proposals

 * entities should have human-readable labels using rdfs:label
 * e.g.  rdfs:label "Protein"@en.
 * entities should have human-readable definitions using dc:description
 * e.g.  dc:description "A protein is a molecule composed of amino acids."@en.