[go] What are evidence codes for?

[Kimberly Van Auken]

I actually think that's a great idea, David.

Also, if there are additional uses for evidence codes that curators can 
think
of, can we communicate these ideas to the user community - maybe via the 
newsletter?

--Kimberly


David Hill wrote:

> 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
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> Tanya Berardini wrote:
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>> Or maybe even more specifically:
>>
>> How does the research community (the annotation consumers) use 
>> evidence codes?
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>> How can we, the curators, assess this?
>>
>> Tanya
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>> David Hill wrote:
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>>> 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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