gorule-0000008.md

layout	rule
id	GORULE:0000008
title	No annotations should be made to uninformative high level terms
type	report
fail_mode	soft
status	implemented
contact	go-quality@mailman.stanford.edu
implementations	language source python https://github.com/biolink/ontobio/blob/master/ontobio/io/qc.py
examples	fail pass comment format input fails because GO:0031572 is in the subset gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate gaf UniProtKB Q9DGE2 mapk14a GO:0005622 PMID:10995439 IDA C Mitogen-activated protein kinase 14A mapk14a|mapk14 protein taxon:7955 20180129 UniProt comment format input fails because GO:0031572 is in the subset gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate gaf UniProtKB Q9WVH3 Foxo4 GO:0031572 PMID:12048180 IDA P Forkhead box protein O4 Foxo4|Afx|Afx1 protein taxon:10090 20110425 MGI comment format input Should pass gaf UniProtKB Q9WVH3 Foxo4 GO:0007095 PMID:12048180 IDA P Forkhead box protein O4 Foxo4|Afx|Afx1 protein taxon:10090 20110425 MGI

Some terms are too high-level to provide useful information when used for annotation, regardless of the evidence code used.

We provide and maintain the list of too high-level terms as two subsets in the ontology:

• gocheck_do_not_annotate "Term not to be used for direct annotation"
• gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate "Term not to be used for direct manual annotation"

Both subsets denote high level terms, not to be used for any manual annotation.

For inferred electronic annotations (IEAs), we allow the use of terms from the gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate subset. These terms may still offer some general information, but a human curator should always be able to find a more specific annotation.

Error report: .report.md