Re: [SO-devel] Really basic question about mRNA and gene true path relation

[Karen E. <kei...@ge...>]

Hi Jim,
The polycistronic/monocistronic debate happened at a SO meeting.
http://www.sequenceontology.org/meetings/meeting-doc.html

Basically a gene can be thought of as a collection of transcripts.
That is what the member relationship is trying to represent.

--Karen

On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Jim Hu wrote:

> I was browsing the ontology to try to understand the representation  
> of polycistronic mRNAs and found myself wondering about  
> monocitronic genes
>
> Is the relationship
>
> 	mRNA member_of gene
>
> via
>
> 	mRNA is_a processed_transcript
> 		is_a transcript
> 			is_a gene_member_region
> 				member_of gene
>
> or is there somewhere else that would give
>
> 	mRNA derives from gene
>
> or something along those lines?
>
> Presumably, how bacterial genes, mRNAs, and polypeptides should be  
> represented in SO is an old discussion.  Is there a FAQ or archived  
> list discussion anyone can point me to?  Thanks.
>
> Jim
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