"Data about data" doesn't have a better general name than just "metadata".
  "Data about genes" does -- i.e., "annotations" -- so why not use that
name?

Usually, the most specific word available is the right one.  Since the word
"metadata" is fundamentally ambiguous, the only appropriate time to use it
(IMHO) is thus when there exists no specific alternative :-/

just my $0.02


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Wang Peter <wng.peter@gmail.com> wrote:

> any way
> if bioconductor use metadata to refer to all the information for annotation
> that makes sense
>
> shan
>



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