[Go] Spliceform column in GAF [was Re: [Gofriends] Redundancy in go_XXXXXX-assocdb-tables/dbxref.txt]

[Benjamin Hitz]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Chris Mungall wrote:

>
> One thing I neglected to mention in the proposal - although it is  
> not specifically excluded - is the ability to annotate beyond the  
> level of individual spliceforms down to phosphorylated and otherwise  
> modified versions of proteins. I recall people being generally in  
> favour of this.
>
> In this scenario, col2 would continue to be the gene or abstract  
> protein, but col 17 would have an identifier for the modified form  
> of a specific protein isoform.
>
> Given this, perhaps the column heading "spliceform" is too narrow.  
> Do we have any suggestions for something more general. "form" is  
> perhaps too abstract.

Molecular Species?

Ben


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