Semantic publishing of knowledge about amino acids

We semantically publish knowledge about the amino acids commonly described within biochemistry.We do this as an ontology written in OWL and presented as XML/RDF. The classification of amino acids is based on taylor's article (PMID:3461222) from 1986 published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The ontology goes further than the static paper version; it combines many aspects of the physicochemical properties taylor uses to classify amino acids to give a rich, multi axial classification of amino acids. Taylor's original description of the amino acid's physicochemical properties are captured with value partitions and restrictions on the amino acid classes themselves. A series of defined classes then establishes the multi-axial classification. The publication, hwen loaded into an OWL ontology manipulation tool, allows some knowledge about amino acids to be explored and used computationally. By publishing this knowledge about amino acids as a semantic document in the form of an ontology we persue an agenda of disruptive technology in publishing. It allows us to 'push' at the nature of a semantic publication.