[Go] addition of localization specific process terms ?

val at sanger.ac.uk val at sanger.ac.uk
Tue Mar 24 04:35:07 PDT 2009


I agree, it is far better to have pre-composed terms if possible,
especially for new curators.
As we encourage annotation to the most specific term possible it is hard
to overlook the precomposed terms, because we (I hope) always check the
child terms).

Val

>  From someone who has been annotating using a lot of pre-composition as
> well as post-composition for a reasonably long time;  although there is
> an initial activation energy to get a pre-composed term into the
> ontology, once they are there, they are much easier to use than to look
> up things in multiple ontologies for post-composition.
>
> The key to finding pre-composed terms easily is to have a good way of
> viewing the ontology.
>
> my 2c
>
> D
>>
>>
>> I would like to hear the opinion of some of the annotators here. Is
>> excessive pre-coordination a concern for curation?
>>
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