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

[Valerie Wood]

But the problem is, that if there is no paper, it's the only way to get 
a gene product into the GO database...

We would still need a 'code' to add to things for which there was no data.
plus
We would still need a way to distinguish things which were unannotated 
but not looked at from unannotated and looked at.....

Do we need a different way to do this? ND seems to work well, although 
it is a deviation form normal evidence code usage.


Benjamin Hitz wrote:

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> The reason this is confusing is that by annotation to the root node 
> (meaning "we looked and didn't find anything") we are overloading the 
> ontology to mark curation status as well as actual data.
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> 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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