[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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