[Ontology-editors] plant-type terms etc.

[Midori Harris]

I seem to recall several annotators expressing a strong preference for the 
names like 'plant-type vacuole' when we discussed it at a GOC meeting. 
Given that these names got the full discuss-at-meeting treatment, and that 
the current names are thus a consensus meeting outcome (tm), I wouldn't 
change them without obtaining explicit approval from the larger GO group.

m

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:

> 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
>
>
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