[Ontology-editors] plant-type terms etc.

[David Hill]

I remember this too. At a meeting it was decided that we would use the 
'-type' terms.

Midori Harris wrote:
> 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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