<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div>As I recall, this was discussed at the SLC consortium meeting, but I find that I can't reconstruct the rationale for the 1 year expiration date on IEAs. For E. coli, we're importing the IEAs from Uniprot, but most of them will expire almost immediately. I assume that there is a problem in other genomes of too many IEAs. But perhaps a limit on how many per gene or some such might be more flexible. <div><br></div><div>For our E. coli websites, I think it makes sense to display IEAs with appropriate caveats, since we're trying to encourage the community to do quality control on them. But I'm not sure, and I imagine that other mods have thought about this a lot.<br><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">=====================================</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jim Hu</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Associate Professor</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2128 TAMU</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Texas A&M Univ.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">College Station, TX 77843-2128</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">979-862-4054</font></p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>