[Geneontology-gowebsite] [ geneontology-GO website-952651 ] moving GO:ids between ontologies

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GO website item #952651, was opened at 2004-05-12 15:25
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Category: request feature
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jennifer I Clark (jenclark)
>Assigned to: Jane Lomax (jl242)
Summary: moving GO:ids between ontologies

Initial Comment:
This is so we can put something in the documenation to
say that we shouldn't move GO:ids between ontologies.
Rather we should obsolete in one and make a new term in
the other. I include an e-mail from Midori to explain
how the plan came about.

Jen



Hi,


>> What's the policy on moving terms from one ontology
to another? I have 
>> a term 'microtubule severing activity', which I
think might be a 
>> process; it's not defined. Would it be OK to move it
into the process 
>> ontology, or should it be obsoleted and then moved?
I'm not sure I've 
>> ever come across this situation before!


It is pretty rare, which probably explains why there's
no 'official'
documentation and precious little by way of precedent.
I think it would be
safest to obsolete the function term and create a new
ID for the process
term, not because the concept is really different, but
to avoid confusion
and the attendant acrimony.

[Tho I do remember from way back in the mists of time,
probably a year BDE
(before DAG-Edit), that one of the reasons for not
encoding any meaning
into GO IDs was Joel Richardson saying that we could
not put F/P/C into the IDs unless we could guarantee
that no term would
ever ever be moved from one ontology to another ... but
as it happens
there are other reasons, such as paths, for IDs to be
nothing more or
less than pure unique identifiers.

Cheers,
m




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