[go] What are evidence codes for?

[Harold Drabkin]

It may mostly boil down to just one thing: " Is the basis for the 
assertion experimental or predictive?".
I believe Proteome originally used only an E or a P.

hjd


Ben Hitz wrote:
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> 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"
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> 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
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> Ben Hitz
> Senior Scientific Programmer ** Saccharomyces Genome Database ** GO 
> Consortium
> Stanford University ** hitz at genome.stanford.edu
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