[annotation] transport anntations

[Pascale Gaudet]

Jen,

Does this information get stored anywhere? I suppose it's too specific 
to go in the ontology's 'comment' section, but perhaps that's the kind 
of stuff for the GO wiki?
http://dimer.tamu.edu/GO/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Pascale

Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During the transport work we made, and then fixed, a small incorrect 
> edit that altered some annotations. As a consequence, we think you 
> might possibly want to adjust your annotations to make them more 
> granular. If you do not make the adjustment, the annotations will 
> still be correct, they will just be less granular.
>
> In more detail, during the transport work we erroneously merged a 
> child term into its parent, and subsequently made a new child term 
> that exactly replaced the term that had been subsumed in the merge. 
> The annotations that were moved as a consequence of the merge are not 
> now wrong, but they are no longer as granular as they were before. 
> Specifically, the old term 'connexon channel activity' ; GO:0015285 
> has been subsumed into gap junction channel activity ; GO:0005243, and 
> then connexon channel activity ; GO:0015285 was replaced with the new 
> term 'gap junction hemi-channel activity' ; GO:0055077 which is a 
> part_of child of 'gap junction channel activity' ; GO:0005243. If you 
> would like to take the annotations that were once to 'connexon channel 
> activity' ; GO:0015285 and move them to 'gap junction hemi-channel 
> activity '; GO:0055077 then that would put them back to their more 
> granular state. If you leave them on 'gap junction channel activity'; 
> GO:0005243 they will still be correct but will be less granular than 
> they once were.
>
> I hope we have not caused too much inconvenience with this edit. 
> Please write back if you have any questions.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jennifer
>

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Pascale Gaudet, PhD
Scientific Curator, dictyBase
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
pgaudet at northwestern.edu
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