[go] Requirement for all 'unknown' annotations to use ND code

[Mike Cherry]

The GOA UniProt file currently includes annotations to non-root terms  
(non-unknown) with the evidence code NR.  These appear to all be old  
Proteome annotations.  I didn't find any other NR annotations to non- 
root terms.

-Mike

On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Karen Christie wrote:

> Responding only to this portion of the discussion:
>
>>> Valerie Wood (22 Jun 2007)
>>>>
>>>>  3. I'm pretty sure that when the unknowns disappeared, we advised
>>>>  software developers that they could retrieve the unknown  
>>>> annotations
>>>>  using the ND evidence code.....
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Chris Mungall wrote:
>>
>> I hope not!
>
>
> Actually, as I understand the reasons stated at the Jan GO meeting  
> for disallowing unknown/root annotations to be made with any other  
> code than ND was so that we --could-- advise software developers  
> that they could retrieve the unknown annotations using the ND  
> evidence code.
>
> I think that the evidence code statements should be only about the  
> type of evidence, not about anything else. They are not statements  
> of quality and I don't think that we should encode additional  
> meaning into ND by saying that all unknown/root annotations will be  
> made with this code. There are occasionally times where using an  
> author statement is valid.
>
> -Karen
>
>