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Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology
http://geneontology.org/page/download-ontology
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Remove "Cellular" from the Component root #12779

Closed jimhu-tamu closed 7 years ago

jimhu-tamu commented 7 years ago

Cellular is not appropriate for viruses, and probably for other extracellular nodes in the existing ontology

dosumis commented 7 years ago

There's a danger this will cause too much churn for consumers of the GO. Also 'cellular' in GO term names generally means something vague like - at the cellular level (of granularity?). So many more terms affected.

I'll bring it up with the editors/

mcourtot commented 7 years ago

Thinking out loud before the editors call: if updating the label is too much of an issue, would one solution be to add a comment specifying that "this label is there for historical reasons, but with the evolution of the GO it also encompass other components such as viral ones"?

dosumis commented 7 years ago

At editor's meeting: we all agreed that the name should not be changed, but that the def should be teaked. How's this:

definition "The part of a cell, extracellular environment or virus in which a gene product is located. A gene product may be located in one or more parts of a cell and its location may be as specific as a particular macromolecular complex, that is, a stable, persistent association of macromolecules that function together."