[Go] Alert: Proposal to obsolete GO:0045045 (biological process) that impacts existing annotations

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

The proposal has been made to obsolete

   secertory pathway ; GO:0045045

Annotations to this term exist at present as follows:

 	DB		total
 	GeneDB_Spombe	14 (no IEA)
 	CGD	1 (ISS)
 	FB	2 (IMP)
 	goa_cow	1 (IEA)
 	goa_human	5 (no IEA)
 	goa_uniprot	3 (1 IEA)
 	Gramene	5 (IC)
 	MGI	3 (no IEA)
 	RGD	9 (1 IEA)
 	SGD	21 (no IEA)
 	TAIR	12 (no IEA)
 	WB	1 (ISS)
 	ZFIN	10 (no IEA)

Annotations can be transferred to 'secretion by cell ; GO:0032940' or one 
or more of its children.

This term is not used in any external2go mappings; it is in the PIR GO 
slim and the prokaryote GO subset maintained within the OBO flat file.

The reasons for making this term obsolete is that it artificially groups a 
numbre of other terms, leading to path problems; its definition is unclear 
(and lacks genus-differentia features); and annotators suspect it has been 
used incorrectly.

SourceForge link:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1912842&group_id=36855&atid=440764

The comment period ends on Friday, April 18, 2008.

*** Unless objections are received by April 18,
     we will assume that you agree to this change. ***

Midori