[Ontology-editors] another question about biogenesis/organization

[Valerie Wood]

"organization and biogenesis" ? ;)


Midori Harris wrote:

> Ow, my head.
>
> I think we've worked out reasonable definitions for "organization" and 
> "biogenesis" and we're just about there for applying them 
> consistently. What we don't have -- and apparently you could really 
> use -- is some term that covers everything we're putting under both 
> organization and biogenesis ... "anything that happens to a cellular 
> component".
>
> What to call it, though?
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> m
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> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Valerie Wood wrote:
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>> Sorry, I still haven't got my head around this...see my recent SF 
>> item.....problem with my slimming
>> I am still trying to get a slim for a tutorial which gives good 
>> coverage of all of my annotated gene products.
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>> Previously I had the term "cell wall organization and biogenesis" 
>> which covered all of cell wall organization and biogenesis.
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>> Now organization and biogenesis are "disjoint" (am I using the 
>> correct terminology?) I need to include *Both* the organization and 
>> biogenesis term, when it seems as though I really want one term to 
>> cover both of these cell wall processes at this level, and that they 
>> are intimately related. I'm not sure how my original annotations got 
>> split between the the 2 new terms but there isn't much overlap now......
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>> 73 to biogenesis
>> and 63 to organization
>> 21 to both
>> However when I look through the list I am pretty sure all of those 
>> annotated to biogenesis to equally be annotated to organization.
>>
>> Now, if i don't include both of these terms in the slim, I get gene 
>> products which do not map to a high level term.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
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>> Val
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