[go] What are evidence codes for?

[David Hill]

Should we start compiling these on the wiki?

David

Rama Balakrishnan wrote:
> 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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