[Go] [Fwd: GO: alcohol dehydrogenase]

[Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU)]

Forwarding the request to GO.

Pankaj

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	GO: alcohol dehydrogenase
Date: 	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:53:06 -0400
From: 	Noel Yap <ivy1 at cornell.edu>
To: 	Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU) <jaiswalp at science.oregonstate.edu>



Pankaj,

In the GO, there are several terms for the molecular function "alcohol
dehydrogenase", depending on the exact enzyme action.

http://dev.gramene.org/db/ontology/search?query=alcohol+dehydrogenase&x=0&y=0&ontology_type=GO 

<http://dev.gramene.org/db/ontology/search?query=alcohol+dehydrogenase&x=0&y=0&ontology_type=GO>

There is one term that is simply "alcohol dehydrogenase activity":
http://dev.gramene.org/db/ontology/search?id=GO:0004022

However this is misleading as this is specifically "alcohol
dehydrogenase (NAD) activity".  A naive user (like me!) who isn't
careful may thing that this term may be used to annotate his favorite
gene when in fact some other term would be more appropriate.  Would it
be possible to switch the term name and the synonym so users aren't misled?

Noel
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Immanuel Yap
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