[go] What are evidence codes for?

[David Hill]

OK I've had a start on the wiki. Currently it is linked to the GOC meeting.
http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Use_cases_for_evidence_codes
David



Chris Mungall wrote:
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> Good idea
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> I think these use cases are even more compelling when we can 
> demonstrate their use directly, either through scripts, amigo queries 
> or for the more advanced, SQL queries (made simpler via the GOOSE 
> interface Seth wrote).
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> For example, the following queries finds potential unsubstantiated or 
> stale ISS assignments:
> http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Example_Queries#Suspect_ISS_assignments 
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> On Sep 14, 2007, at 7:55 PM, David Hill wrote:
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>> Should we start compiling these on the wiki?
>>
>> David
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>> 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
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>>> On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:37 AM, 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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