version 1.2, copyright The University of Manchester, Nick Drummond, Georgina Moulton, Robert Stevens, Phil Lord Amino acids and their properties Semantic Publishing of Knowledge about Amino Acids Robert Stevens and Phillip Lord We semantically publish knowledge about the amino acids commonly described within biochemistry. 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. 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. Blogs about the published semantics of amino acids may be found at http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/an-update-to-the-amino-acids-ontology/ and links following. version 1.3, Annotated by Lin Zhang, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Hebei, China.1 version 2.0 robert Stevens see http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/an-update-to-the-amino-acids-ontology/ 氨基酸及其性质 Alanine A Alanine ala Cysteine C Cys Cysteine Aspartate Asp Aspartate D Glutamate E Glutamate glu Phenylalanine F Phe Phenylalanine glycine G gly glycine Histidine H His Histidine Isoleucine I Ile Isoleucine Lysine K Lys Lysine Leucine L Leu Leucine Methionine M Met Methionine Asparagine Asn Asparagine N Proline P Pro Proline Glutamine Gln Glutamine Q Arginine Arg Arginine R Serine S Ser Serine Threonine T Thr Threonine Valine V Val Valine Tryptophan Trp Tryptophan W Tyrosine Tyr Tyrosine Y