[go] What are evidence codes for?

[Rama Balakrishnan]

I have one data point to answer this question. A post-doc in the lab  
across from us says, he makes sure he throws IEAs and the rest are  
treated the same.

Rama

On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:37 AM, 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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