[Electron-transport] one more addition

[Jim Hu]

If you look at the comments on GO:0006810 ! transport in the obo file,  
it already says not to use this for electron transport.

Jim


On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Gwinn Giglio, Michelle wrote:

>
>
> Hi Jen,
>
> I don't think this is a good idea.  I think it just recreates one of  
> the
> problems we were trying to get rid of by reworking the old electron
> transport term.  People will start annotating stuff to this term  
> that they
> shouldn't.  Also I agree with Peter, it is not transport like the  
> other
> transport terms are.
>
> I can't seem to find a list of the terms in question here, I'm likely
> looking in the wrong places - could you send an example or two?
>
> Thanks,
> Michelle
>
>
> On 3/17/08 7:27 AM, "Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)"  
> <jdeegan at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am making last minute preparations for the commit of our electron
>> transport work, which will take place on wednesday.
>>
>> I found that some of the terms that are parts of photosynthetic  
>> electron
>> transport don't have an is_a path to the root (which they must have
>> before I can commit). To solve this problem I have made a new term
>> 'electron transport', which is a direct child of the process  
>> 'transport'.
>>
>> This means that in the commit we will be obsoleting the old term
>> 'electron transport' that used to roughly represent the respiratory
>> electron transport chain, and replacing it with:
>>
>> [i]electron transport chain ; GO:new
>> ---[i]respiratory electron transport chain ; GO:new
>> ---[i]photosynthetic electron transport chain ; GO:new
>>
>> and that we will also be creating a new child of transport:
>>
>> [i]transport ; GO:0006810
>> ---[i]electron transport ; GO:new
>>
>> electron transport ; GO:new
>> def: The directed movement of electrons into, out of, within or  
>> between
>> cells.
>>
>> The terms under photosynthetic electron transport chain ; GO:new
>> that did not previously have an is_a path to the root will then  
>> have an
>> is_a path to the root via
>> electron transport ; GO:new.
>>
>> Does this all seem okay with everyone?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jen
>>
>>
>
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