[Annotation] annotating ribosomal proteins

Rama Balakrishnan rama at genome.stanford.edu
Tue Jun 24 13:57:28 PDT 2008


Hi all,

I am sure all the other groups annotating ribosomal genes are facing  
the same issue. I would like to hear from you about the new proposal  
for IPI or if you have other suggestions.

Thanks,

Rama

On Jun 18, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Rama Balakrishnan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1) Although there is a REACTOME ID for the yeast ribosome complex, I  
> think a better solution would be to allow the GOID for the complex  
> in the 'with' column for IPI. This is because, Reactome has IDs only  
> for human and yeast, and this solution won't scale for other  
> organisms.
>
> 2) If we move towards the idea of using IPI in this fashion, we also  
> need to update the documentation for IPI because by saying that the  
> subunit interacts physically with the complex, one could infer that  
> the subunit peripherally interacts with the complex as oppose to  
> inferring that the subunit is part of the complex.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rama
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2008, at 9:25 AM, D'Eustachio, Peter wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, Midori,
>>
>> We do have such identifiers (though in general - this case is an  
>> exception - only for human proteins and complexes) and this sounds  
>> like a legitimate use of them, but it also seems like a kind of  
>> hack around the basic problem. Earlier in this thread, someone  
>> pointed to one paper that supports the assertion "ribosomes are  
>> required for translation to occur", and another that supports the  
>> assertion "subunit X is required for the assembly of a complete  
>> ribosome", but no single paper that asserts "the ribosomes that  
>> actually participate in translation have been shown to contain  
>> subunit X", and so we are left to draw this conclusion by  
>> inference, reading the two papers in succession. I guess all of  
>> this violates the principle that there should be a 1:1:1 mapping of  
>> protein : GO term : publication and evidence code. Here, Reactome  
>> has silently done the inference so formally you can make a 1:1:1  
>> relationship, but there's still a hidden multi-step inference in  
>> there.
>>
>> That said, we live by that hack - our unit of curation is the  
>> reaction, and I have yet to find the reaction all of whose  
>> attributes can be annotated without combining evidence assertions  
>> inferentially from multiple papers.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: annotation-bounces at genome.stanford.edu on behalf of Midori  
>> Harris
>> Sent: Wed 6/18/2008 5:02 AM
>> To: Karen Christie
>> Cc: GO Annotation list
>> Subject: Re: [Annotation] annotating ribosomal proteins
>>
>> Reactome has identifiers for complexes ... could you use IPI with the
>> Reactome ID for the ribosome? (E.g. S. cerevisiae ribosome is
>> Reactome:141693; H. sapiens is 72500.)
>>
>> If this is a stupid idea, I'll bow out quietly ... it's been a  
>> long, long
>> time since I did annotation.
>>
>> m
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Karen Christie wrote:
>>
>>> As of the 2006 Annotation camp, we agreed that IPI could only be  
>>> used when
>>> you know it is a direct interaction and that you should fill the  
>>> with column
>>> with the directly interacting gene products.
>>>
>>> Prior to that, I often used to use IPI for the proteins that came  
>>> down in a
>>> complex, and for 'modern' purifications where one protein was  
>>> tagged, I'd put
>>> that one in the with column. But we agreed that it isn't known  
>>> that this is
>>> direct, so we quit doing it. I've been having the same problem with
>>> spliceosomal complexes and have become rather unkeen on the  
>>> decision that IPI
>>> could only be used for known direct interactions. It seems that this
>>> requirement got added by the people who want to use the IPI with  
>>> field as a
>>> protein-protein interaction database.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I thought that IPI with the tagged protein seemed like a  
>>> much better
>>> representation of the evidence for the process than IDA. Coming  
>>> down as part
>>> of a complex doesn't seem like a direct assay for process. IPI  
>>> with one of
>>> the proteins in the complex seems like a better representation of  
>>> what was
>>> actually done, but we can't do now that because of the direct  
>>> interaction
>>> requirement.
>>>
>>> IC also seems a little unsatisfying, since it's not experimental.  
>>> I don't
>>> know, maybe for complexes as well characterized as the ribosome,  
>>> or the
>>> spliceosome, just being in the complex is direct evidence that  
>>> it's part of
>>> the process that the complex is experimentally characterized to be  
>>> part of...
>>>
>>> I've been a bit muddled about how best to deal with these ever  
>>> since the 2006
>>> Annotation camp. I liked using IPI better than IDA...
>>>
>>> -Karen
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Pascale Gaudet wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you then IPI the process?
>>>>
>>>> Doug howe wrote:
>>>>     I think:
>>>>     "the IDA is just for the annotation to the complex term and  
>>>> then use
>>>> IC from the
>>>>     complex term for the Process annotation"
>>>>     is the way to go.
>>>>
>>>>     Doug
>>>>
>>>>     Karen Christie wrote:
>>>>           Hi Pascale,
>>>>
>>>>           Rama is looking at the original papers, and ribosomes  
>>>> and the
>>>> processes
>>>>           of ribosome assembly are probably better characterized in
>>>> cerevisiae
>>>>           than in any other eukaryote.
>>>>
>>>>           The real issue here is that what has been shown is that  
>>>> protein
>>>> X is
>>>>           part of a big complex, e.g. the ribosome, for which the
>>>> function is
>>>>           known. The sum total of the experimental evidence  
>>>> available for
>>>> a
>>>>           significant number of ribosomal proteins is that they are
>>>> purified as
>>>>           part of the ribosome complex. So, for component, it's  
>>>> easy.
>>>> This is IDA
>>>>           evidence that protein X is in the ribosome, or in the  
>>>> Small
>>>> SubUnit
>>>>           (SSU) or in the Large SubUnit (LSU), or whatever  
>>>> complex is
>>>>           characterized.
>>>>
>>>>           But is being in the ribosome considered to be IDA  
>>>> evidence for
>>>> a process
>>>>           annotation to translation? In one way of looking at it,  
>>>> the
>>>> direct assay
>>>>           is that it's part of a complex and then you're assuming  
>>>> that
>>>> the
>>>>           individual protein is involved in translation because  
>>>> it's in
>>>> that
>>>>           complex. Is this a direct assay for being involved in
>>>> translation? Can
>>>>           we use IDA for a process annotation? or is it a more  
>>>> accurate
>>>> statement
>>>>           to say that the IDA is just for the annotation to the  
>>>> complex
>>>> term and
>>>>           then use IC from the complex term for the Process  
>>>> annotation?
>>>>
>>>>           -Karen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>           On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Pascale Gaudet wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                 Hi Rama,
>>>>
>>>>                 I think this is a perfect case where one of us  
>>>> should go
>>>>                 back to the original papers and find
>>>>                 what we all need to ISS to (in which organism the  
>>>> funtion
>>>>                 and process were shown).
>>>>
>>>>                 Pascale
>>>>
>>>>                 Rama Balakrishnan wrote:
>>>>                       Hi,
>>>>
>>>>                       I have couple of ribosomal proteins to  
>>>> annotate as
>>>>                 part of the ref-genome curation
>>>>                       project. Turns out that there is no direct
>>>>                 experimental evidence showing that these
>>>>                       proteins are involved in translation.  
>>>> Almost all
>>>> the
>>>>                 studies purify the ribosome
>>>>                       from yeast and identify the subunits by one  
>>>> or more
>>
>>>>                 techniques.
>>>>
>>>>                       I can do IDA for CC annotation, that is
>>>>                 straightforward. Is IDA for function
>>>>                       annotation- structural constituent of  
>>>> ribsomome
>>>> okay?
>>>>                 What about BP? I can do IC
>>>>                       from the CC term, but that is not direct
>>>> experimental
>>>>                 evidence. What do you all
>>>>                       think?
>>>>
>>>>                       Thanks for your time,
>>>>
>>>>                       Rama
>>>>
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