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Repository for storing GO documentation, directly available through the general GO site
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Taxon column (GAF column 13) cardinality should be 1 or greater #464

Open pgaudet opened 1 year ago

pgaudet commented 1 year ago

Hello,

Currently the cardinality of the Taxon column (GAF column 13) is 1 or 2; however there are terms that describe interactions between 3 species, so the cardinality should be 1 or greater

@balhoff Can we change this in the documentation (http://geneontology.org/docs/go-annotation-file-gaf-format-2.2/) , or is this a change in format?

Thanks, Pascale

balhoff commented 1 year ago

Since it already can handle 2 (separated by pipe), it shouldn't require any syntax change to handle greater.

kltm commented 1 year ago

If the official documentation and spec does not include 3+, it is a format change. We cannot just change the spec without iteration. The new spec should be 2.2.1, considered a non-breaking bug fix change.