[Annotation] [Evidence] Fwd: ISS/ISA from Southerns?

Stacia Engel stacia at genome.stanford.edu
Thu Jun 5 15:44:26 PDT 2008


I agree that it should be TAS with the paper that does the Southern.   
NAS doesn't make much sense.

stacia


On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:37 PM, MICHELLE GIGLIO wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> Should we explore the option of expanding the scope of IPI?  A  
> Southern is an experiment that looks for a physical interaction.
>
> But if folks don't want to do that, then I think it would be TAS,  
> not NAS.  It is traceable to the Southern.
>
> Michelle
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: annotation-bounces at genome.stanford.edu on behalf of Karen  
> Christie
> Sent: Thu 6/5/2008 4:53 PM
> To: Pascale Gaudet
> Cc: GO Annotation list; Julie Park; evidence at genome.stanford.edu
> Subject: Re: [Annotation] [Evidence]   Fwd:  ISS/ISA from Southerns?
>
> How could we cite SGD? We didn't do any sequence similarity  
> comparisons.
>
> Also, why do you think the Southern evidence is dubious? High  
> stringency
> Southerns are actually quite strong evidence.
>
> -Karen
>
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Pascale Gaudet wrote:
>
> > Another suggestion: How about making the annotation citing SGD  
> rather than the paper? Is the sequence similarity good enough to do  
> that?
> >
> > It seems to me that Southern evidence is pretty dubious anyway, I  
> know it's nice to capture all information we can get from papers,  
> but that seems
> > rather low quality?
> >
> > Pascale
> >
> > Julie Park wrote:
> >       Thanks all for your input.
> >
> > Unfortunately there is no other evidence for these annotations  
> and all subsequent papers that discuss these genes reference the  
> original Southern
> > experiments.
> >
> > The curators here agree with Emily's reasoning for not using  
> EXP.  We also are against using IPI.  Since both interacting  
> parties are DNA
> > molecules and not gene products it is both misleading and non- 
> compliant with the IPI criteria.
> >
> > We at SGD have decided that given the changes to the ISS evidence  
> code, we'll change these annotations to use the evidence code NAS  
> and still use
> > the Southern paper as the reference.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > -Julie
> >
> >
> >
> >             From: Emily Dimmer <edimmer at ebi.ac.uk>
> > Date: June 5, 2008 4:56:56 AM PDT
> > To: Evidence Code Group <evidence at genome.stanford.edu>
> > Cc: GO Annotation list <annotation at genome.stanford.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [Evidence] [Annotation]  Fwd:  ISS/ISA from Southerns?
> >
> > I like the idea of using IPI.
> >
> > At the moment all experimental annotations should be able to be  
> described by one of the child codes of EXP, the only annotations
> > which directly use this code are those which do meet the criteria  
> of the child experimental codes, but cannot be retrofitted by the
> > submitting group.
> > It might be nice to keep it this way, rather than allow EXP to be  
> used for undocumented experimental methods -  otherwise EXP could
> > potentially end up as a dumping ground for a diverse range of  
> annotations where the curator is not sure which of the child
> > experimental codes is appropriate.
> >
> > Emily
> >
> >
> >
> > Judith Blake wrote:
> >       I agree too.  This is too far from ISS as now employed.
> >
> >
> >       aren't these from older papers?  Isn't there better  
> evidence available now?  if so, why include them?  if not, what about
> >       EXP?
> >
> >
> >       judy
> >
> >
> >       MICHELLE GIGLIO wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >             Hi Rama,
> >
> >
> >             I agree with Susan.  I am reluctant to add this back  
> to ISS.  However, I don't know where it would go
> >             instead.
> >
> >
> >             If it does come back to the ISS family (if we can not  
> think of another alternative) then it definitely can
> >             NOT go under ISA as there is no alignment in this  
> situation. It would have to be plain ISS.  (But I still
> >             don't like it there.)
> >
> >
> >             Could it possibly be an IPI?
> >
> >
> >             Michelle
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >             -----Original Message-----
> >
> >             From: evidence-bounces at genome.stanford.edu on behalf  
> of Susan Tweedie
> >
> >             Sent: Wed 6/4/2008 5:17 AM
> >
> >             To: Rama Balakrishnan
> >
> >             Cc: Evidence Code Group; GO Annotation list
> >
> >             Subject: Re: [Evidence] Fwd:  ISS/ISA from Southerns?
> >
> >
> >             One thing we'd have to consider if we added this  
> (back?) to ISS is that
> >
> >             the new classification of evidence codes groups ISS,  
> ISA etc as
> >
> >             'computational analysis evidence codes' - that  
> wouldn't be strictly true
> >
> >             if Southerns were included.
> >
> >
> >             I am uneasy about mixing together cases where the  
> sequence is known with
> >
> >             those that aren't - no review of the evidence is  
> possible in the latter
> >
> >             case. Personally, I would be reluctant to make an  
> annotation based on a
> >
> >             cross-hybridisation expt but maybe I just remember  
> too many spurious
> >
> >             bands from my time in the lab.
> >
> >             Are there really that many cases these days where  
> sequencing is so
> >
> >             stnadard where this is the only evidence to support a  
> term? Maybe I'm
> >
> >             just spolit working on a species with complete genome  
> sequence...
> >
> >
> >             Cheers,
> >
> >
> >             Susan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >             On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:05 -0700, Rama Balakrishnan  
> wrote:
> >
> >             > I haven't heard from anybody on this so far. Is it  
> okay if we add
> >
> >             > 'southern analysis' as an acceptable evidence to  
> the ISS
> >
> >             > documentation?
> >
> >             >
> >
> >             >
> >
> >             > Thanks,
> >
> >             >
> >
> >             >
> >
> >             > Rama
> >
> >             >
> >
> >             >
> >
> >             > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >             >
> >
> >             > > From: Rama Balakrishnan <rama at genome.stanford.edu>
> >
> >             > > Date: May 9, 2008 5:18:06 PM PDT
> >
> >             > > To: Evidence Code Group  
> <evidence at genome.stanford.edu>
> >
> >             > > Cc: GO Annotation list  
> <annotation at genome.stanford.edu>
> >
> >             > > Subject: [Evidence] ISS/ISA from Southerns?
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > > Reposting...
> >
> >             > > I am dealing with a similar situation like the  
> one Julie has
> >
> >             > > mentioned below.
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > > Thanks,
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > > Rama
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > >
> >
> >             > > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >             > > > From: Julie Park <juliep at genome.stanford.edu>
> >
> >             > > > Date: April 23, 2008 3:57:22 PM PDT
> >
> >             > > > To: evidence at genome.stanford.edu
> >
> >             > > > Subject: [Evidence] ISS/ISA from Southerns?
> >
> >             > > >
> >
> >             > > >
> >
> >             > > > Dear evidence code group,
> >
> >             > > >
> >
> >             > > > I had a question about whether Southern  
> analysis alone can be used
> >
> >             > > > as > > > evidence for an annotation.
> >
> >             > > >
> >
> >             > > > In S. cerevisiae, MEL2-10 are annotated by ISS to
> >
> >             > > > alpha-galactosidase > > > activity.  There is  
> no sequence alignment or information (older > > >
> >             literature, pre-genome sequencing), instead the  
> authors infer
> >
> >             > > > homology/
> >
> >             > > > sequence similarity from a Southern  
> hybridization using a MEL1
> >
> >             > > > probe.  > > > Southern analysis was listed in  
> the old ISS documentation but the
> >
> >             > > > only > > > mention of Southerns in the new  
> documentation is under ISA in > > > conjunction with a
> >             sequence alignment.
> >
> >             > > >
> >
> >             > > > Is ISS by Southern only no longer allowed or  
> did it just get left
> >
> >             > > > out > > > of the current documentation?
> >
> >             > > > If allowed, would I leave these annotations as  
> ISS or would it be
> >
> >             > > > okay > > > to ISA w/ MEL1?
> >
> >             > > >
> >
> >             > > > thanks,
> >
> >             > > > Julie
> >
> >             > > >
> >
> >             > > >  
> ****************************************************************
> >
> >             > > > Julie Park, Ph.D., Scientific Curator
> >
> >             > > >  Saccharomyces Genome Database
> >
> >             > > >  Department of Genetics
> >
> >             > > >  Stanford University School of Medicine
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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