[go] What are evidence codes for?

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Many use it for an evidence based reasoner/score to either predict or 
confirm the gene's function/role in a process/localization.

It all depends on how one writes the queries and database design.

In simple terms one can ask
-are there any Arabidopsis genes involved in the biological process 
'leaf development' that were evaluated by IGI and IMP.
	-If so give a list of interacting genes (based on IGI code)
	 and info presented in WITH column.

OR
-give a list of rice genes that are orthologous to arabidopsis genes 
involved in the biological process 'leaf development' and were evaluated 
by IGI ONLY.

Pankaj

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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> 

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