[go] 'regulation of gene expression'

[Harold Drabkin]

IMHO, no;
Some "experiments" do not give real information other than to help you 
design what experiments will.
Again, I am signing off on this with grave reservations.

hjd

Pascale Gaudet wrote:
> But isn't it already more information than annotating to the root term?
>
> Harold Drabkin wrote:
>> Moi???
>>
>> Well; my feeling hasn't changed but everyone else thinks it's a 
>> meaningful term. I like it a bit better than the " biosynthesis  of" 
>> terms. I still feel it doesn't say much if you say gene product x is 
>> involved in the regulation of gene expression  based on an 
>> observation that doing something to x causes the levels of other gene 
>> products to change, without knowing actually what is happening. Still 
>> seems like to me like making a term to use for incomplete or 
>> ill-defined experiments. Just my take.
>>
>> hjd
>>
>>
>> Jane Lomax wrote:
>>> Actually, I was just waiting for Harold's blessing on this item...
>>>
>>> Jane
>>>
>>> Midori Harris wrote:
>>>> So did I! I think what happened is simply that the SF item is 
>>>> assigned to Jane, and she's been so busy with various2go mappings 
>>>> and advocacy stuff that she hasn't had a chance to work on her 
>>>> other SF things.
>>>>
>>>> m
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, David Hill wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I thought it was going to be implemented.
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>> Karen Christie wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Tanya,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There seems to be a stalled SF item on this topic:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [ 1418820 ] gene expression
>>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1418820&group_id=36855&atid=440764 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Karen
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Tanya Berardini wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A (long) while back, we'd talked about having a term for 
>>>>>>> 'regulation of gene expression'.  I've been searching the email 
>>>>>>> archives without much luck hoping to find out what happened with 
>>>>>>> respect to that item.  The last I found was an action item from 
>>>>>>> the Sept. 2002 (!) meeting.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Collective memory, please help out!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tanya
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>>>> Tanya Berardini, Ph.D.            tberardi at acoma.stanford.edu
>>>>>>> The Arabidopsis Information Resource    FAX: (650) 325-6857
>>>>>>> Carnegie Institution of Washington    Tel: (650) 325-1521 ext. 325
>>>>>>> Department of Plant Biology        URL: http://arabidopsis.org/
>>>>>>> 260 Panama St.
>>>>>>> Stanford, CA 94305
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>