In the early days, genes were automatically linked to genes, but it caused a lot of problems. In addition, we in the past had created an 'actin' gene to use as the one representative for all actins. We then changed policies and deleted the gene 'actin'. But since 'actin' occurs in so many abstracts, a large amount of papers has been linked to the now deleted gene.
To manually unlink when I curate one of the older papers, I have to make the actin gene active again, then delete the connection to the paper, then delete the gene again.
In the new database, please do not allow links of literature to deleted genes.
In the early days, genes were automatically linked to genes, but it caused a lot of problems. In addition, we in the past had created an 'actin' gene to use as the one representative for all actins. We then changed policies and deleted the gene 'actin'. But since 'actin' occurs in so many abstracts, a large amount of papers has been linked to the now deleted gene.
To manually unlink when I curate one of the older papers, I have to make the actin gene active again, then delete the connection to the paper, then delete the gene again.
In the new database, please do not allow links of literature to deleted genes.
Thanks!