[Ontology-editors] plant-type terms etc.

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi,

A proposal has been made as follows:

Instead of putting modifiers like 'plant-type' in term names to make the 
meaning of the more esoterically defined terms clear, we should just put 
an example in the definition gloss. For example this term:

GO:0000325
name: plant-type vacuole
exact: vacuole, cell cycle-independent morphology
def: A closed structure, found only in eukaryotic cells, that is 
completely surrounded by a unit membrane, contains liquid, and retains 
the same shape regardless of cell cycle phase. [source: GOC:mtg_sensu, 
ISBN:0815316208]

would become:

GO:0000325
name: vacuole, cell cycle-independent morphology
def: A closed structure, that is completely surrounded by a unit 
membrane, contains liquid, and retains the same shape regardless of cell 
cycle phase. An example of this structure is the vacuole of plant cells. 
[source: GOC:mtg_sensu, ISBN:0815316208]

Would anybody have any objection to this change? The advantages are that 
this policy would remove prominent taxon information from the file but 
would still leave information in the gloss to clarify the meaning of the 
term. The disadvantage is that the less prominent clue to the meaning of 
the term would leave users having to hunt a bit more to find what they 
want.

Thanks,

Jen