taxon restriction for 'transduction'

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The GO term "transduction" (GO:0009293), or perhaps it's parent term "genetic transfer" (GO:0009292) seem (to my naive eyes) like good candidates for a taxon constraint rule. I looked in the current taxon constraints file and didn't see anything that would take care of these terms.

Reported by: doughowe

Original Ticket: geneontology/ontology-requests/8449

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• assigned_to: nobody --> paolaroncaglia

Original comment by: paolaroncaglia

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Hi Doug,

We've looked at the annotations for "genetic transfer" (GO:0009292) and its children, and most of the manual annotations are for plants and bacteria (they were done by TAIR and TIGR mostly), so it seems like we can't really put an "only_in" taxon constraints on it... Also the definition of "transduction" is a bit broad, including bacteria, bacteriophages and yeasts. Perhaps we could put a "never_in" taxon constraint to exclude Metazoa (but not all Eukarya, as lateral genetic transfer is known to occur between bacteria and amoebas/slime molds as well). We also need to check about taxon constraints when dealing with multi-organism processes. Let us know if you have any comments on this.

Thanks, Paola

Original comment by: paolaroncaglia

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Hi Doug, this is done:

Added never_in_taxon rule to GO:0009292 genetic transfer (using Chris' new script to auto-assign relationships ID)

Thanks, Paola

Original comment by: paolaroncaglia

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• status: open --> closed-accepted

Original comment by: paolaroncaglia