[go] What are evidence codes for?

[Tanya Berardini]

Or maybe even more specifically:

How does the research community (the annotation consumers) use evidence 
codes?

How can we, the curators, assess this?

Tanya


David Hill wrote:
> Actually I think this is a great question. So I'd like to add, how do 
> people use evidence codes, and when they use them, how do they use them?
> 
> David
> 
> Ben Hitz wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> -- 
>> Ben Hitz
>> Senior Scientific Programmer ** Saccharomyces Genome Database ** GO 
>> Consortium
>> Stanford University ** hitz at genome.stanford.edu
>>
>>
>>
> 

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