[Go] Possible new GO terms for cell wall

[Midori Harris]

Dear Diane,

We are always happy to receive suggestions for new GO terms. I would 
recommend that you err on the side of suggesting any new cell wall terms 
that you think might be useful, and we will evaluate each suggestion. We 
will add any new terms that can be defined in a way that clearly 
distiguishes them from existing cell wall terms (and from each other, of 
course).

The best way to get your suggestions to us is via our "ontology requests" 
tracker at SourceForge. The tracker is at:

   https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=36855&atid=440764

It will help us a lot if you can include a name, a suggested definition, a 
definition source (e.g. one or more papers or books) and at least one 
parent for each term you suggest. Please let us know if you have any 
problems or questions with the tracker. We've put together some 
documentation on the GO site, at 
http://www.geneontology.org/GO.requests.shtml, but it's a bit out of date 
at the moment.

Best regards,
Midori

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Diane Inglis wrote:

> Dear GO Consortium members,
>
> I am curating at AspGD and am wondering what your policy is on adding new
> cell wall terms for Aspergillus. During asexual development, Aspergillus
> generates conidiophores that consist of several types of individual
> specialized cells. These cells are conidia/spores, phialides, metulae
> (phialides and metulae are also known as sterigmata), vesicle cells and
> stalks. I am curating a paper in which the protein of interest is localized
> specifically to the cell walls of the conidia and the phialides within the
> conidiophore (PMID14599891).
>
> I am wondering if it would be appropriate to request new cell wall terms
> under Cellular Component specifically for these cell types ("spore cell
> wall" and "phialide cell wall"). Currently there is a term "fungal-type cell
> wall" and terms for more specialized cells walls such as "yeast form cell
> wall" and "hyphal cell wall." Within the Aspergilli, the individual cells of
> the conidiophore are developmentally distinct from hyphal cells so I think
> it might be appropriate to add these terms.
>
> Please let me know what your policy is on adding these terms.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Diane Inglis
> *********************************
> Diane O. Inglis, Ph.D.
> Scientific Curator, Candida and Aspergillus Genome Databases
> Department of Genetics
> Stanford University School of Medicine
> Stanford, CA 94305-5120
> Phone: 650-736-0075
> http://www.candidagenome.org/
> http://www.aspgd.org/
>

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Midori A. Harris, Ph.D.
GO Editor
EMBL - EBI
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD UK

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