[Go] odd characters in term names

[Doug]

Though this pertains to GO terms, it is not uncommon to have ' in an  
anatomy term name such as Hensen's node...which could obviously lead  
to a go term with that in it as well.  I think being tolerant of these  
is necessary...

Doug Howe, Ph.D.
Scientific Curator
Zebrafish Nomenclature Coordinator
Zebrafish Information Network
541-346-0120
dhowe at cs.uoregon.edu



On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Benjamin Hitz wrote:

>
> So, we recently had two terms added under "Protein Complexes"
> GO: 32221, Clr6 histone deacetylase complex II'
> and
> GO: 33698, Clr6 histone deacetylase complex I/I'
>
> I understand that the ' is part of the name, but it's sort of an  
> unpleasant character to deal with.  These broke the SGD slim  
> mapper.  Is there a set of characters that are not allowed in term  
> names?  Should there be?  Or should I just man up and make sure to  
> escape them.
>
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Hitz
> Senior Scientific Programmer ** Saccharomyces Genome Database ** GO  
> Consortium
> Stanford University ** hitz at genome.stanford.edu
>
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