[Go] documentation for the new 'Experimental' evidence code.

[E Dimmer]

Hi,

Below you will find a draft of the new documentation for the 
'Experimental' evidence code.  This draft has been passed by evidence 
code committee. I'd be grateful if you could have a look and send any 
comments or suggestions to me by the 18th of April so that we can start 
adding it to the GO website etc., and will mean that the code is 
available for Reactome to use in their gene association file.   The 
documentation of this code is quite short as it only acts to group each 
of the well-defined child experimental terms. The acronym for this code 
is currently 'IE' - in line with the entry in the ECO ontology.

Thanks,
Emily


IE: Inferred from Experiment

This code is used in an annotation to indicate that an experimental 
assay has been located the cited reference, whose results indicate a 
gene product's function, process involvement, or subcellular location 
(indicated by the GO term). The IE code is the parent code for the IDA, 
IMP, IGI, IEP and IPI
experimental codes.

The IE evidence code can be used where any of the assays described for 
the IDA, IMP, IGI, IPI or IEP evidence codes is reported. However it is 
highly encouraged that groups should annotate to one of the more 
granular experimental codes (IDA, IMP, IGI, IPI or IEP) instead of IE, 
and all curators directly involved in the GO Reference Genome annotation 
effort are obliged to use these and not IE.

The IE code exists for groups who would like to contribute high-quality 
GO annotations that are produced from directly associating GO terms to
gene products by citing experimental published results, but where the 
group is unable to fit the appropriate specific experimental GO evidence 
codes to each annotation.

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    Emily Dimmer Ph.D.
    GOA Coordinator
    EMBL-EBI
    Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
    Hinxton
    Cambridge CB10 1SD, U.K.
    Tel:     +44 1223 494654
    Fax:    +44 1223 494468
    email:  edimmer at ebi.ac.uk
    URL:    http://www.ebi.ac.uk/goa