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

[Karen Christie]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the info, but the NR code is not the one that is used for 
annotations to the root nodes. NR stands for Not Recorded and is obsolete 
for new usage.

-Karen


On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Mike Cherry wrote:

> 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
>> 
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