[go] representation of -> in go term names

[Jim Hu]

There are some go terms that use -> to represent a right arrow.  On  
GONUTS we have

http://gowiki.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Category:GO:0033942_%21_4-alpha-D-%28%281-4%29-alpha-D-glucano%29trehalose_trehalohydrolase_activity

the same term on AMIGO:

http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&show_associations=direct&search_constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0033942

For wiki compatibility, we convert curly brackets to parentheses.  I  
converted the -> to a -, but I'm not sure whether that is appropriate.

Mike Cherry and I discussed this a tiny bit off list.  Mike wrote (off- 
topic discussion of iPhones redacted):
> 4-alpha-D-((1->4)-alpha-D-glucano)trehalose trehalohydrolase
>
> I find the -> at several places, although some use 1,4 instead of 1- 
> >4.  Also GO has the { escaped by not the }.  It seems that no one  
> is removing the \, this include MGI and QuickGO web sites.
>
> I think this is a good thing to bring up to the GO list.  There are  
> lots of synonyms that have '->'.

I'm not sure whether 1,4 and 1->4 mean the same thing.  The -> causes  
problems for mediawiki when it's in a page title, as we use term names  
as pages on GONUTS.  It seems to work ok in AMIGO.  Is this a good  
standard way to represent right arrows?  Will the '>' cause problems  
for othe software besides mediawiki?

Jim

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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054


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