[Go] sporulation rearrangement
Pankaj Jaiswal
pj37 at cornell.edu
Fri Jun 13 06:36:41 PDT 2008
Midori Harris wrote:
> 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.
>
At some point majority of BP terms are cellular. In this particular case
the tree is being modified/corrected to identify the multicellular form.
Therefore the term names must identify cellular (generic) to uni/multi
cellular forms. You may want to consult Barry on this.
> '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.
>
Not an exact synonym but a related/narrow synonym considering they are
structures with multi-nucleate cells formed by the fusion of neighboring
cells.
Pankaj
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