[go] annotation submission date

[Peter D'Eustachio]

Both dates are useful - "submission" for biologist users who want to know 
how nearly current the data set is, and "last touched" for curators and 
systems people who want to know things like whether an obsolete annotation 
discovered yesterday could have been removed yet.

Peter D'E

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valerie Wood" <val at sanger.ac.uk>
To: <go at genome.stanford.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:26 AM
Subject: [go] annotation submission date


>
>
> I just spotted that on the annotations download page
> http://www.geneontology.org/GO.current.annotations.shtml
> ....the column heading "submission date" does not reflect the date that 
> the data provider last submitted annotations.
>
> For pombe the last update was in late August but the data given is
> November 24th. This appears to be because this is the date that the file 
> was last touched (i.e to remove obsolete annotations) in the CVS 
> directory. As a user I would expect this file to reflect the last date the 
> annotations were updated by the data provider. Otherwise there is no way 
> to know whether a resource is actively updating annotations.
>
> What do others think this date should reflect?
>
>
> Val
>
>
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