[go] Fwd: [Go-database] Synonym length

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi,

They might also be useful for reasoning and natural language processing 
applications where a human would not be involved to spot that the text 
is very long.

Jen


Amelia Ireland wrote:

>Back in Gotham City, Harold Drabkin wrote:
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>>I would doubt someone would search on such a synonym.  Our synonyms 
>>should aid in searching for the right term.
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>As a general rule, though, we should not let the database structure
>dictate what information the GO holds; if more cases come up where there
>are lengthy synonyms, we should consider allowing longer entries in the
>synonyms field to accommodate them. With some of these chemical names, it
>might be that people see them in a paper or online somewhere, and they
>just cut and paste them into the search box in AmiGO (or whatever GO tool
>they are using). They probably wouldn't stop to consider how long the name
>of the chemical is.
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Jennifer Deegan nee Clark
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Gene Ontology Consortium