Growth and development

[Pascale Gaudet]

Sounds good to me!

At 02:51 PM 5/25/2005 +0100, J Clark wrote:
>Hi Pascale,
>
>>I am not sure why we need the 'prior to division' bit??
>
>True. :-)
>
>'unicellular organism growth' then?
>
>as a child of 'cell growth'?
>
>Jen
>
>>At 02:20 PM 5/25/2005 +0100, J Clark wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Pascale,
>>>
>>>Yes that seems like a good plan. I could add that parentage.
>>>
>>>Do you think the term string is okay as it is or could we have a less 
>>>clunky version?
>>>
>>>Jen
>>>
>>>Pascale Gaudet wrote:
>>>
>>>>Jennifer,
>>>>This may be a bit off topic, but how does this term relates to 'cell 
>>>>proliferation'? In the case of Dictyostelium, unicellular organism 
>>>>growth should probably be a child of cell proliferation (if the 
>>>>definition of cell proliferation gets fixed to remove the "rapid 
>>>>expansion" bit).
>>>>Pascale
>>>>
>>>>At 03:05 PM 5/24/2005 +0100, J Clark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>I've written to Chris several times over the last few weeks to ask if 
>>>>>he agrees with this proposal and I think he must just be too busy to 
>>>>>get back to us. In order not to hold things up any longer I propose 
>>>>>now to implement the proposal below (previous e-mail) in some form.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anybody have any ideas for the term strings and sensu taxa for 
>>>>>these terms?
>>>>>
>>>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division    (sensu x)
>>>>>exact_synonym: unicellular organism developmental growth
>>>>>prior to division
>>>>>def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
>>>>>organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>>>>>_is_ part of development.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>>(sensu y)
>>>>>def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
>>>>>organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>>>>>_is_not_ part of development.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>Jen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>J Clark wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>I have rewritten the proposal clarifying the two terms of interest.
>>>>>>Does this seem like a better representation?
>>>>>>If it does then would Chris be happy with the use of a sensu 
>>>>>>designation so high up in the DAG?
>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>Jen
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Proposal:
>>>>>>Currently we are saying that some species research groups that study 
>>>>>>single celled organisms
>>>>>>define the relationship between growth and development
>>>>>>differently from other species research groups.
>>>>>>e.g. one group may say that the growth that occurs prior to
>>>>>>  division of the single celled organsim is developmental growth 
>>>>>> (e.g. pombe),
>>>>>>whilst other research groups say that that kind of growth is
>>>>>>not developmental growth (e.g. dicty).
>>>>>>The way we're suggesting we'll deal with this is to represent
>>>>>>individual instances of growth according to the view of the
>>>>>>relevant research community and that we'll clarify things by
>>>>>>adding synonyms. If a term 'x growth' needs to have a
>>>>>>development parent as well as a growth parent then I add an
>>>>>>exact synonym 'x developmental growth'. If a term 'x growth'
>>>>>>does not need a development parent then it does not get the
>>>>>>synonym. It seems to me that we might also need a sensu term
>>>>>>as follows:
>>>>>>[i]development
>>>>>>---[p]developmental growth
>>>>>>------[i]unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>>>          (sensu x)
>>>>>>[i]growth
>>>>>>---[i]unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>>>       (sensu y)
>>>>>>---[i]developmental growth
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>>>       (sensu x)
>>>>>>exact_synonym: unicellular organism developmental growth
>>>>>>              prior to division
>>>>>>def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
>>>>>>organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>>>>>>_is_ part of development.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>>>       (sensu y)
>>>>>>def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
>>>>>>organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>>>>>>_is_not_ part of development.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute,
>>>>>Gene Ontology Consortium,
>>>>>and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
>>>>>http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jclark/
>>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute,
>>>Gene Ontology Consortium,
>>>and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
>>>http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jclark/
>>
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>Gene Ontology Consortium,
>and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
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