[Go] generic GO slim question

[Amelia Ireland]

On Jun 16, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Jim Hu wrote:

> From what I can tell about the discussions of slims I've heard at  
> GOC meetings, part of the problem is that maintaining them is an  
> extra task that no one really has time to do.  Which makes me wonder  
> if slimming can be automated in some way.  For example, anything  
> that is used for a manual annotation of a prokaryote would go in the  
> prokaryotic slim.


The criteria that Val came up with in the email thread last year are  
actually mostly pretty computable:

http://fafner.stanford.edu/pipermail/go/2008-May/015997.html

The main problem is trying to work out whether terms are biologically  
meaningful or relevant (pt. 6 in the email), or whether they're just  
artificial terms that a biologist wouldn't actually use. It might be  
necessary to look at some external source(s) of biological terms to  
try to determine that in a more automated manner.

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