children of organogenesis

[Tanya Berardini]

I think the only plant term we've got here is 'suspensor development' and
the 12 genes annotated to this one can be annotated to 'suspensor
morphogenesis' - this would be more correct, actually.


Tanya


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jennifer I Clark wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would it be possible for everybody to take a quick look at
>
>
>     [ 1065289 ] organ morphogenesis terms 2
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1065289&group_id=36855&atid=440764
>
> It's about the children of organogenesis. Organogenesis is about the
> morphogenesis of an organ and it has children called 'x development' and
> 'x morphogenesis'. The impression that I get about these child terms was
> that the initial designation of 'development' or 'morphogenesis' was
> basically interchangeable since the terms were made before any clear
> distinction between these ideas had been worked out. A few months ago I
> redefined the development ones with the standard definition of
> development, with a view to moving them out of under 'organogenesis'.
> This is how we would have done things according to the old rules.
> However, now I have been told that if it doesn't affect annotation then
> it's okay to adjust the terms called 'x development' to make them into
> 'x morphogenesis' terms. So I'm now wondering the following:
>
> If there are terms called 'x development' under 'organogenesis', should
> I move these terms out to be children of 'organ development' or should I
> get the annotators to check the annotations, and where appropriate just
> change the 'x development' terms into 'x morphogenesis' terms.
>
> Does anybody have any views on this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen
>
>

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