[Go] odd characters in term names

[Midori Harris]

I agree; we have to allow ' in term names, even if we change the names of 
GO:32221 and GO:33698.

At present OBO-Edit allows any ASCII characters in text fields. There's a 
feature request for Unicode support, but I don't think there's any 
inclination for GO to switch t Unicode; it's for the benefit of other 
ontologies.

midori

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Doug wrote:

> 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
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> 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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