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Gene identifier synonym table standard and/or repository?
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Thu Feb 13 10:20:29 PST 2003
hi Fritz,
If you really want to store information on many organisms (and perhaps
other types of information than "just" GO associations), I think you
will have to build a local database relying on some general protein or
gene database, e.g. SwissProt/TrEMBL, PIR, or perhaps Ensembl.
This goes beyond GO, it's the very thorny problem of building a
federative biological database...
I maintain such a database for internal use, as a basis for studying
protein-protein interactions.
Using a single protein database "backbone" such as SwissProt/TrEMBL is
the easy solution, but it means some information from your sources is
lost (hopefully not too much). For example 5000 of the 23500 wormbase GO
associations are discarded in my database, because either the name of
the gene was not clearly found in my protein database (3500 here), or
several different proteins matched that name (1500).
But at least the annotations that do get added to my database are clean.
I'm not sure if this type of approach is what you need: if you only want
go annotations for a few organisms, you can probably do better by just
looking for synonym tables for your chosen organisms; but if it is don't
hesitate to contact me if you want further info:-)
regards,
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Fritz Roth wrote:
> Greetings GOphiles,
>
> We are working on some new software that uses GO annotation, and we
> would really like it to support all GO-annotated organisms. Our chief
> barrier to doing this is the lack of gene identifier synonym tables for
> each organism (so that users can enter gene names rather than being
> restricted to MOD IDS, e.g., SGD or MGI IDs).
>
> Is there an agreed GO Consortium standard for gene identifier synonym
> tables (could be as simple as tab-delimited text with a synonym-uniqueID
> pair on each line). If so, is there a repository for such files? Or is
> this a GMOD question?
>
> Thanks!
> Fritz Roth
>
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