[annotation] transport anntations

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi Pascale,

I have added the note here on the public wiki:

http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Meeting_Notes#Bug_fixing_meeting:_31th_Nov.2C_2007

Thanks,

Jen


Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:

> 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