trait Vs GO

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Doreen,

could you please comment on how are we going to relate the GO Vs trait (a big
?), e.g. look at dorught tolerance, the term is there in GO but needs to be
under traits. I really dont know how is it going to work (all i can do is make
multiple parents). I am thinking of suggesting to GO that all the responses are
traits (phenotypes) and not biological process in entitity. Since a lot of
molecular functions as part of different biological processes may be involved in
final response.

pankaj 

example for "drought tolernce" in Gene ontology:(for real)

Gene_Ontology (GO:0003673) 
        [p] biological_process (GO:0008150) 
           [i] cell communication (GO:0007154) 
              [i] response to external stimulus (GO:0009605) 
                  [i] response to abiotic stimulus (GO:0009628) 
                     [i] water response (GO:0009415) 
                        [i] drought response (GO:0009414) 
                            [i] drought tolerance (GO:0009633) 
           [i] cell growth and/or maintenance (GO:0008151) 
              [i] stress response (GO:0006950) 
                  [i] drought response (GO:0009414) 
                     [i] drought tolerance (GO:0009633) 



where as in trait ontology that  i have --------(GO nos are arbitrary GO IDs,
they will be TO IDs later)

    %stress resistance or crop damage traits ; GO:0300236
     %abiotic stress ; GO:0300239
      %physicochemical stress ; GO:1100099
       %chemical stress ; GO:0300643
       %physical stress ; GO:0300642
        %water stress
         %deepwater trait ; GO:1100125
          %elongation ; GO:1100126 ; ICIS:1209 ; synonym:Elon
          %kneeing ability ; GO:1100128 ; ICIS:1212 ; synonym:KnA
          %submergence tolerance ; GO:1100127 ; ICIS:1215 ; synonym:Sub
         %drought stress ; GO:1100121
         %drought recovery ; GO:1100124 ; synonym:DRR
         %drought resistance ; GO:1100123
         %drought sensitivity ; GO:1100122 ; synonym:DRS



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Pankaj Jaiswal, Ph.D.                                   
Postdoctoral Associate
Dept. of plant Breeding                             
Cornell University                                   
Ithaca, NY-14853, USA   

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