[go] annotation submission date

[Midori Harris]

I agree with Peter -- the best thing would be to make room for both dates.

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Peter D'Eustachio wrote:

> 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.
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> Peter D'E
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> ----- 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
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>> 
>> 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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