[Ontology-editors] dbxrefs

[Midori Harris]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Chris Mungall wrote:

>
> On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Amelia Ireland wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> What is the current policy on dbxrefs for obsolete terms? There are a whole 
>> load of obsolete terms with dbxrefs (e.g. GO:0003802 onwards); should these 
>> dbxrefs be removed?
>
> I don't think so, at least until the dbxrefs have been moved to a valid term. 
> There are many dbxrefs only attached to an obsolete.
>
> There may be dbxrefs that cannot be moved to a valid term, in which case it 
> should stay attached to the obsolete forever, in order to say "we believe 
> this external xref cannot be accurately mapped to GO"

I think we've removed some dbxrefs in the past, but I'm happy for keeping 
them to be the policy from now on.

m

>
>> 
>> Ta,
>> Amelia.
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