[go] What are evidence codes for?

[Ben Hitz]

This is going to sound really flip - but why, precisely, do we track  
evidence codes?  Do you feel they are serving their intended purpose?

The GO docs are somewhat vague on this:
"The annotation must indicate what kind of evidence is found in the  
cited source to support the association between the gene product and  
the GO term"

There is lot of talk about what evidence codes are, and details about  
what falls into what class - but in order to address these issues I  
think it might be useful to think about WHY.

Ben
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Ben Hitz
Senior Scientific Programmer ** Saccharomyces Genome Database ** GO  
Consortium
Stanford University ** hitz at genome.stanford.edu