[Go] 1 year limit on IEAs

[Suzanna Lewis]

Hi Jim,

Actually the one-year expiration date was decided many years ago at a  
different meeting. The problem we were/are trying to address is when a  
group provides a one-time annotation of a genome to us and then, as  
time drifts by, the ontology changes, the gene models/proteins may  
change, and the annotations from which the original IEA annotations  
were based may also have changed. Given all of this drift once a set  
of annotations are orphaned we didn't feel they would/could remain  
relevant and useful.

As you are actively monitoring the E. coli set of annotations these  
wouldn't fall under this sunset clause for abandoned annotation sets.

-S

On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Jim Hu wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As I recall, this was discussed at the SLC consortium meeting, but I  
> find that I can't reconstruct the rationale for the 1 year  
> expiration date on IEAs.  For E. coli, we're importing the IEAs from  
> Uniprot, but most of them will expire almost immediately.  I assume  
> that there is a problem in other genomes of too many IEAs.  But  
> perhaps a limit on how many per gene or some such might be more  
> flexible.
>
> For our E. coli websites, I think it makes sense to display IEAs  
> with appropriate caveats, since we're trying to encourage the  
> community to do quality control on them.  But I'm not sure, and I  
> imagine that other mods have thought about this a lot.
>
> Jim
>
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