Guidelines for GO textual definitions: Difference between revisions
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==General guidelines to write a good textual definition== | ==General guidelines to write a good textual definition== | ||
All definitions in GO should follow a genus-differentia pattern. This means they should be constructed such that they are a type of the parent term, that is distinguished from its siblings in some way. For example, a spindle microtubule is defined as "Any microtubule that is part of a mitotic or meiotic spindle; anchored at one spindle pole.". | All definitions in GO should follow a genus-differentia pattern. This means they should be constructed such that they are a type of the parent term, that is distinguished from its siblings in some way. For example, a spindle microtubule is defined as "Any microtubule that is part of a mitotic or meiotic spindle; anchored at one spindle pole.". | ||
Genus: Any microtubule | |||
Differentia: part of a mitotic or meiotic spindle; anchored at one spindle pole" | |||
; membrane fusion | ; membrane fusion |
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General guidelines to write a good textual definition
All definitions in GO should follow a genus-differentia pattern. This means they should be constructed such that they are a type of the parent term, that is distinguished from its siblings in some way. For example, a spindle microtubule is defined as "Any microtubule that is part of a mitotic or meiotic spindle; anchored at one spindle pole.". Genus: Any microtubule Differentia: part of a mitotic or meiotic spindle; anchored at one spindle pole"
- membrane fusion
- The joining of the lipid bilayer membrane around X to the lipid bilayer membrane around Y.
- cellular component organization
- A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of cellular component.
- cellular component biogenesis
- The process by which a cellular component is synthesized, aggregates, and bonds together.
- macromolecular complex assembly
- The aggregation, arrangement and bonding together of a set of components to form a macromolecular complex.
- xxx distribution
- Any process that establishes the spatial arrangement of xxx.