two questions from March 19 obol

Midori Harris midori at ebi.ac.uk
Wed Mar 30 05:48:00 PST 2005


> 
> The generic dag structure in that region looks like this:
> 
>   cellular process
> [i] cell differentiation
> ---[p] cell fate commitment
> ------[p] cell fate specification
> ------[p] cell fate determination
> ---[p] cell development
> ------[i] cellular morphogenesis during differentiation
> ------[i] cell maturation
> 
> http://www.geneontology.org/GO.process.guidelines.shtml#devTerms
> 
> Obol is suggesting that you add a term that's basically 
> called 'x cellular morphogenesis during differentiation' as 
> a child of the generic term 'cell development'. However 
> there's really no point doing that since it would mean 
> bypassing the correct generic parent 'cellular morphogenesis 
> during differentiation' which is already a child of 'cell 
> development'.
> 

Very informative! I suspect that the obol suggestion is based on the
higher-up development terms, where 'morphogenesis' is_a 'development'.

m





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