[Go] addition of localization specific process terms ?

[Tanya Berardini]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Chris Mungall <cjm at berkeleybop.org> wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Jim Hu wrote:
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>  In general, I like precomposition too.  But for binding, and to a lesser
>> extent location, I don't like the idea of having parent terms with thousands
>> of children.  The terms like regulation of translation of gene X mRNA are
>> terrifying to me.  I noticed that somewhere on wiki.geneontology.org,
>> there's a statement that GO will never do those kinds of terms by
>> precomposition, but a few terms like that are already in GO, and there was
>> recently a sourceforge item about protein chaperones for specific gene
>> products.
>>
>
> I'll let David and Tanya answer the regulation case -)


We are discouraging any more new terms of the kind 'regulation of gene X
mRNAtranslation '.  When column 16 goes live, we will merge the current very
specific term 'regulation of translation of oscar mRNA'  into the parent
'regulation of translation' and the id for oscar can go into col 16.
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