final PAMGO proposal submitted to GO

Jane Lomax jane at ebi.ac.uk
Thu Jan 27 09:12:33 PST 2005


Okay - it's pretty much finished. You can download it from here to have a 
look (load into DAG-Edit):

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jane/gene_ontology.obo

I'll send out a final email now warning people that I'll merge the 
changes in on Monday, and listing the terms that will be made obsolete.

A few final things to suggest/check:

Another couple of name changes (just for consistency of term names really, 
and making names clearer):

host cell invasion -> entry into host cell (old name as exact synonym)

(sorry - I know I already suggested changing that one once already!)

viral entry -> viral entry into host cell

I've also made 'viral entry' a child of 'host cell invasion' like this:

entry into host cell
---[i] viral entry into host cell

This is because the definition of 'viral entry' is 'The process by which a 
virion enters a host cell, including virion attachment and penetration'. 
Let me know if that definition's wrong and I can change it back.


Could the definition of 'interaction between organisms' be changed 
slightly from:

The processes by which an organism has an observable effect on an organism 
of a different species.

to

The processes by which an organism affects an organism of a different 
species.

?
(we don't like to include experimental references like 'observe')

And Candace, could you come up with a definition for the new term 
'symbiotic interaction with other, non-host organism' do you think? It'll be 
much better than mine!

thanks,

Jane




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