[annotation] cilium movement vs.ciliary motility
Doug howe
dhowe at cs.uoregon.edu
Thu Aug 2 08:29:08 PDT 2007
I think you and Peter hit the nail on the head. I'll start a new SF
item to describe cilium and flagellum movement.
-Doug
David Hill wrote:
> I think you are correct that these terms describe the cell's motility.
> I think that this term could have 2 is_a children called ciliary
> motility and flagellar motility and then in turn these would have
> parts that describe the movement of an individual cilium or flagellum.
> These children would also include processes for things like control of
> coordination and direction. Note also that the current term does not
> include a stationary cell such as a ciliated epithelial cell since it
> has a 'localization of cell' parent. So, in this case perhaps we
> should have a genric term called 'cilium movement' and a specific
> child for 'cilium movement involved in ciliary motlity'. What do you
> think Doug?
>
> David
>
> Doug howe wrote:
>> I want to annotate that a gene product is involved in the process of
>> moving cilia. GO has the term 'ciliary or flagellar motility', but
>> this term appears to pertain to organismal locomotion resulting from
>> movement of these structures rather than movement of the structures
>> themselves. Anyone have any thoughts about that? Maybe a new term
>> is needed, though the motion of the cilia and flagella is pretty
>> fundamental. Hard to believe it isn't in the GO somewhere..
>>
>> -Doug
>
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