[go] What are evidence codes for?

[David Hill]

Exactly. We spend a great deal of time arguing about exactly which 
evidence code to use in an annotation. Can we come up with a list of 
where we have seen the research community using GO and determine how 
they have used the codes?

I have seen the IPI evidence code used to mine protein interactions
I have seen people discriminate between experimentally verified 
annotations and 'computed' annotations.

David




Tanya Berardini wrote:
> 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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