[Go] sporulation rearrangement

[Chris Mungall]

The fungal_anatomy ontology could be very useful for checking child  
terms. However, this ontology is marked as quiescent in OBO. Would  
there be any chance of resurrecting it?

On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:00 AM, 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. 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
> ------[i] cellular sporulation ; GO:0030435
> ------[i] multicellular or syncytial sporulation ; GO:new
> ---------[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
> ---------[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
> ------------[i] cellular sexual sporulation ; GO:0034293
>
> how does that sound to you single-celled fungi people?
>
> cheers,
>
> Jane
>
> -- 
> Dr Jane  
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