[go] representation of -> in go term names

[Judith Blake]

I agree,
my first take is that this is a convention thing, an alternative to 
using a dash...

judy

Midori Harris wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> I can't comment on the techy aspects of your questions, such as which 
> representations of arrows are compatible with which software, but I do 
> think GO term names should choose one and use it consistently. I also
> think we'll probably need to keep synonyms that use some of the 
> alternate representations.
>
> Chris - can you run a check for consistency for this?
>
> midori
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jim Hu wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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