Growth and development

[J Clark]

Hi,

At the consortium meeting we decided to move 'growth' so 
that it is a sibling of 'development' rather than a child.

Chris and I were talking about it afterwards and he was 
asking if there is a rule that he can use for obol so that 
he knows when 'x growth' terms should have an 'x 
development' parent.

For example, is the growth that precedes bacterial division 
always, sometimes, or never considered to be part of 
development?
I asked around about this, and the view was that some 
species research communities think that this kind of growth 
is part of development and some think it isn't. Chris was 
concerned that if species research communities differed in 
their view of this then it would be impossible to represent 
the information in an ontology structure.

I am meant to be implementing the changes to the growth 
terms but I don't feel I can go ahead with that while Chris 
has these doubts about the representation of different views 
of growth in a single DAG.

After failing to reach a concensus on this at the meeting I 
thought it would be best to try to resolve this problem as 
soon as possible while the discussion is still fresh in our 
minds. I have written to the key people in the discussion to 
make sure they're all free this week (David, Rex, Tanya, 
Chris). This e-mail is an attempt to restart that discussion 
so that Chris can represent his views directly to the people 
involved. I'm hoping that he can get a satisfactory 
resolution to his question so I can go ahead and implement 
the change to the growth term.

Thanks for taking the time to help sort this out. I have 
attached the minutes of the growth v. development discussion 
in case anybody needs a reminder of what was said.

Best wishes,

Jennifer



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EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute,
Gene Ontology Consortium,
and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jclark/
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