Guidelines for GO textual definitions

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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 should be defined as a microtuble that is part of the spindle.


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.