The project MalariaExampleWorkflow
includes queries that we wrote in Protege's
Axiom Language (PAL). Protege can define queries in the three following
ways.
1) The Query Tab can be used to write simple queries of the form: return
all instances of a class where one of the class’s slot values contains
a specified value (e.g., all the biomolecular processes that exhibit the
function of Adhesion).
2) PAL Queries use first order logic and the operator find, findall
to define queries.
3) PAL constraints use first order logic to define constraints. The
instances that violate the constraints are shown. PAL constraint can be
used to formulate queries; if you want to query for A where A.a = x, then
you write a constraint of the form Forall A, A.a != x and check for constraint
violation.
In the Malaria example, we used all three options to formulate queries.
Examples of queries include:
1) Biopolymers that have the same set of roles and are not inhibited
by the same inhibitor
2) What atomic activities have the same participants?
3) All activities that are a kind of adhesion
4) All activities that are a kind of adhesion and occur in the erythrocytic
plasma membrane
5) All activities inhibited by cytochalazin