[Go] sporulation rearrangement

[Midori Harris]

I much prefer the original proposal over these suggested changes -- 
GO:0030435 is defined as a cellular process, so it's better to make its 
name match its meaning than change the meaning.

'Multicellular' and 'syncytial' are not synonymous, so maybe there should 
be two new sporulation terms, but we certainly shouldn't have one term 
with 'multicellular' in the name and 'syncytial' in an exact synonym.

midori

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:

> Looks good. Suggestions inserted.
>
> Pankaj
>
> David Hill wrote:
>> Jane,
>> 
>> Based on your comments, this makes sense to me.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> Jane Lomax wrote:
>>> Hi - the PAMGO group are currently working on some terms to annotate 
>>> higher fungi and have encountered some problems with the existing 
>>> placement of the term 'sporulation' and its children in the graph. 
>>> Essentially the problem is that sporulation is a child of 'cell 
>>> differentiation' but in higher fungi spores are often multicellular or 
>>> syncytial structures so this is a tpv. 
>
> Modify the definition  of sporulation ; GO:0030435 to suggest uni & 
> multicellular forms.
>
>
> So we'd like to propose some
>>> changes to the existing graph to remedy this:
>>> 
>>> NOW:
>>> 
>>> developmental process
>>> ---[i] cellular developmental process
>>> ------[i] cell differentiation
>>> ---------[i] sporulation ; GO:0030435
>>> ------------[i] asexual sporulation ; GO:0030436
>>> ------------[i] sexual sporulation ; GO:0034293
>>> 
>>> PROPOSED:
>>> 
>>> developmental process
>>> ---[i] sporulation ; GO:new
>
> Check this term its ID is not new but GO:0030435
>
>
>>> ------[i] cellular sporulation ; GO:0030435
>
> Should be a new term.
>
> My suggestion would be to make it exclusively
> 'unicellular sporulation', considering a following new term for 
> 'multicellular sporulation' is also suggested. This will introduce 
> consistency.
>
>
>>> ------[i] multicellular or syncytial sporulation ; GO:new
>
> use of OR must be avoided. Call the term 'multicellular sporulation' and add 
> synonym 'syncytial sporulation'. They are synonymous and not single terms.
>
>
>>> ---------[i] multicellular or syncytial sexual sporulation ; GO:new
>>> ---------[i] multicellular or syncytial asexual sporulation ; GO:new
>>> ------[i] sexual sporulation ; GO:new
>>> ---------[i] cellular sexual sporulation ; GO:0034293
>
> ................^^^^^^^ unicellular
>
>
>>> ---------[i] multicellular or syncytial sexual sporulation ; GO:new
>>> ------[i] asexual sporulation ; GO:new
>>> ---------[i] cellular asexual sporulation ; GO:0030436
>>> ---------[i] multicellular or syncytial asexual sporulation ; GO:new
>>> 
>>> developmental process
>>> ---[i] cellular developmental process
>>> ------[i] cell differentiation
>>> ---------[i] cellular sporulation ; GO:0030435
>>> ------------[i] cellular asexual sporulation ; GO:0030436
>
> ................^^^^^^^ unicellular
>
>>> ------------[i] cellular sexual sporulation ; GO:0034293
> ................^^^^^^^ unicellular
>>> 
>>> how does that sound to you single-celled fungi people?
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> 
>>> Jane
>>> 
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