[annotation] transport anntations

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi Pascale,

Good point. I'll put on the transport meeting minutes page of the GO wiki.

Jen


Pascale Gaudet wrote:

> 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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Jennifer Deegan nee Clark
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Gene Ontology Consortium