[electron-transport] molecular function - process links.

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi,

In this week's meeting we have decided to have a go at making a list of 
the electron carrier functions that relate to specific electron 
transport processes.

As a first step Jim Hu suggested that we should take the full list of 
functions under 'electron carrier activity' and start with those. 
Therefore, I have extracted those terms and entered them as the left 
column in a google spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/
username: geneontology
password: goconsortium

As a first step, we are going to try to make a list of:

     * where the given function *only* exists as part of a given process 
(which will be entered in the second column)

     * where there is a given process (entered in third column) that can 
*only* occur if the function mentioned is occurring as part of that 
process.

     * where the function mentioned is part of a named process (entered 
in fourth column) in some species but not in others. Further details 
also to be entered if available.

     * There is a comments column for where there is information on a 
possible connection, but where we can't be sure that an entry should be 
made in the more specific columns.

We are going to start by aiming for low hanging fruit and we will see 
how far we get before it gets difficult and time-consuming.

Please do go ahead and just have a try. Any information that you can 
provide will be hugely helpful. If you try it and find that the plan is 
just too difficult and time-consuming, or that the columns don't make 
any sense, then please do get back to me and we can have a rethink. As 
my first step I will see what I can do with the photosynthesis functions.

Thanks for trying this. It should be a good experiment and will get us 
the results we want more quickly.

Best wishes,

Jennifer