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

Gwinn Giglio, Michelle mgiglio at SOM.UMARYLAND.EDU
Fri Jun 6 09:45:12 PDT 2008



Hi all,

I also think EXP is appropriate here.  I worried about using either TAS or
NAS (in addition to not being consistent with the documentation) because
those codes do not indicate that an experiment was done and I think its
important to capture that.  So I like the idea of EXP and although I know
that many are worried about a slippery slope here, I think that this shows a
way in which the EXP code is very useful.  If an experiment does not fit
well into one of the 5 experimental codes then I see nothing wrong with
using EXP.  The alternative is to make yet more codes (ISE, inferred from
Southern experiment) which I think we want to avoid.

Michelle



 


On 6/6/08 12:39 PM, "Karen Christie" <kchris at genome.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Based on our current documentation of either TAS or NAS, this is just not
> an author statement because either TAS or NAS is intended for things NOT
> shown in the paper being cited. Use of either is a misrepresentation of
> the fact that there is experimental evidence.
> 
> Yesterday in SGD's curator meeting, there was sentiment that use of EXP
> should be avoided, but in thinking more, I have come to the opinion that
> this is the only currently available code that is not a misrepresentation
> of the evidence. I should make it clear that I am speaking for myself and
> not for SGD in that statment, but the evidence in this paper is just not
> an author statement of any kind as we've conceived of these evidence
> codes. I think it would be really poor practice to start kludging
> inappropriate stuff into the author statement codes right after we just
> spent a year cleaning up the documentation and making it sensible.
> 
> -Karen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Judith Blake wrote:
> 
>> I think TAS is really it.  Southerns don't directly show by sequence
>> similarity nor by IPI.  TAS says the author says so.  The fact that there
>> isn't a way to capture Why he/she says so, isn't in our system.
>> 
>> Judy
>> 
>> Karen Christie wrote:
>>> 
>>> Our new documentation for the distinction between TAS and NAS is very
>>> simple. If they cite another paper, it is TAS. If it isn't tracable to
>>> another publication, then it isn't TAS.
>>> 
>>> Here's what we have on the web in the current documentation:
>>> 
>>> TAS
>>> Any statement in an article where the original evidence (experimental
>>> results, sequence comparison, etc.) is not directly shown, but is
>>> referenced in the article and therefore can be traced to another source.
>>> 
>>> NAS
>>> Statements in papers (abstract, introduction, or discussion) that a curator
>>> cannot trace to another publication
>>> 
>>> -Karen
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Stacia Engel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>  Stanford, CA 94305-5120 USA
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>  phone: (650)724-9959  fax: (650)725-1534
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>  http://www.yeastgenome.org
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> *****************************************************************
>>>>>> 
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