[Ontology-editors] The True Path Rule

[Amelia Ireland]

Hello all,

According to the docs,

the true path rule states that "the pathway from a child term all the  
way up to its top-level parent(s) must always be true"

(from http://www.geneontology.org/GO.usage.shtml#truePathRule)

To accommodate the new GO relations, this would have to be changed to  
"the pathway from a child term all the way up to its top-level  
parent(s) must always be true where the pathway is composed of  
transitive relations", or something like that. The whole of the TPR  
documentation is rather out of date, and it's really aimed at people  
editing the ontology, not curators. I would like to pension it off or  
put it on the wiki somewhere. Do people have any thoughts?

Cheers,
Amelia.

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