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

[Suzanna Lewis]

Okay, I'm with you.

(playing at devil's advocate here)

-S

On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Mike Cherry wrote:

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> On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Suzanna Lewis wrote:
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>>>>>> A knockout with no phenotype is data, its a negative result  
>>>>>> yes but its data. You have data that there is no phenotype for  
>>>>>> that gene for the screen that was performed.
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>> So would this be an annotation to a root node with IMP?
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> I guess I didn't really say what I meant.  I think its a bad idea  
> to annotation most anything to the root nodes except for our  
> curation status ND associations.  IMP to the root is not a useful  
> way to database viable phenotypes -- thats where I was going.
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> -Mike
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