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True path violation: children of GO:9314 #1356

Closed gocentral closed 9 years ago

gocentral commented 20 years ago

I understand the goal of this branch of the ontology. But, I'm not comfortable with the child terms of "response to radiation" (GO:9314). Radiation is really not a parent of UV light, light, or X-rays. All four of those things are fairly mutually exclusive concepts at least in terms of the wavelength spectrum. (ie, radiation, ie gamma rays is a smaller wavelength range than UV light)

I was trying to find a good reference for this but this is the best I could do:

http://et.nmsu.edu/~etti/spring97/techtips/spectrum.html

I wonder if there could be a new parent term called "response to electromagnetic wavelengths" or something similar. Ok, this is the best I can do the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving!

And the rest of the ontology could be

response to electromagnetic wavelength ---%response to radiation (synonym:response to gamma rays) ---%response to UV light ------%UV protection ------%perception of UV light ---%reponse to visible light ---%respose to X-rays

Thanks! eurie

Reported by: eurie

Original Ticket: "geneontology/ontology-requests/1359":https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/1359

gocentral commented 20 years ago

Original comment by: mah11

gocentral commented 20 years ago

Original comment by: mah11

gocentral commented 20 years ago

Original comment by: mah11

gocentral commented 20 years ago

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OK, I've looked into this, and it turns out we're using 'radiation' correctly: 'electromagnetic radiation' refers to any energy emitted in the form of waves or particles, regardless of wavelength. The word 'radiation' thus isn't restricted to gamma rays at all; it covers the entire spectrum. So it's a perfectly suitable parent of visible light, UV light, etc. -- in fact it's probably the best word to use in the parent term.

I'll add a comment to help avoid confusion.

A few references: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know\_l1/emspectrum.html http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ALSTool/EMSpec/EMSpec.html (and http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ALSTool/EMSpec/EMSpec2.html) http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves\_particles/

Original comment by: mah11

gocentral commented 20 years ago

Original comment by: mah11

gocentral commented 20 years ago

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Thanks for the clarification, Midori. And for adding comments.

Original comment by: eurie