[Annotation] annotating ribosomal proteins

Judith Blake jblake at informatics.jax.org
Wed Jun 25 04:51:40 PDT 2008


Rama,

I agree that the solution needs to go beyond ReactomeIDs.  However, 
there are many other complex resources, and my summer intern is in the 
process of collecting a more global (one would hope comprehensive) list 
of complexes with IDs from these other resources.  So putting a complex 
ID in the 'with' field seems correct.  And allowing the GO:ID seems 
correct too

I think distinguishing between 'member of complex' and 'interacts with 
complex' is very important.    The CC assignment places a gp in a 
complex.  I think using the IPI code here, while technically defensible, 
might result in the confusion.  Would this be a place that IPI with 
'co-localizes' would clarify the distinction?

judy

Rama Balakrishnan wrote:
> 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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