[Ontology-editors] use of regulates

[Midori Harris]

David & Tanya will probably do a better job of this, but they're both away 
this week, so ...

> For example, in a situation where you have a term 'regulation of process X' 
> but there's no process X in GO, but process X is_a process Y, is it okay to 
> say that 'regulation of process X' regulates process Y? Or do we have to 
> create a process X?

Usually, yes, except where the only difference between process X and 
process Y is the regulatory context. The example D&T used is transcription 
-- there's a brief description in the Princeton meeting minutes:

http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/GO_18th_Consortium_Meeting_Minutes_Day_1#2.29_Regulation.

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