[gofriends] Forthcoming changes to URLs for downloading GO

[Chris Mungall]

This is to announce forthcoming changes to the location at which the  
gene ontology obo file can be downloaded from. These changes are  
entirely backwards compatible, no action is required on anyone's part.

The current URLs are:

http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/gene_ontology_edit.obo -- obo  
format 1.2
http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/gene_ontology.obo -- obo format 1.0

These URLs will continue to be supported. However, the same content  
will be available from URLs which more accurately reflect their  
content, specifically:

http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/obo_format_1_2/gene_ontology. 
1_2.obo
http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/obo_format_1_0/gene_ontology. 
1_0.obo

(these URLs will be dead links until this change comes into effect)

Once they change comes into effect, you are encouraged to change the  
URLs you use for the purpose of linking, automatic downloading of the  
ontology, at a time of your convenience. The current URLs *will*  
continue to be supported, and will continue to contain the up-to-date  
(updated daily) content of GO. However, the new URLs indicate the  
contents of the file more clearly.

Note that the version used by the ontology editors has moved to:

http://www.geneontology.org/ontology/editors/gene_ontology_write.obo

However, you are strongly recommended not to link to, download or use  
the editors URL. You can get the same content in a timely fashion  
from one of the recommended URLs above.

As a reminder, the cvs revision number in these files should never be  
used as a version number. These numbers are specific to the file- 
path, not the contents of these file.

For more download options, please see:
http://www.geneontology.org/GO.downloads.ontology.shtml

This change will go into effect within the next few weeks, and will  
be announced on this list.


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