SourceForge meeting 2013-10-30

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Scope of GO:0005615  ! extracellular space

#10434 Clarification for GO:0005615 (extracellular space)

This ticket requests that "comment for "extracellular space" be modified to clarify that it can also be used for secretions such as tears and saliva."

It is hard to see a justification for this in terms of useful annotation provided for end-users. Who is going to expect the contents of tears to be classified as components of an extracellular space? Isn't this the domain of anatomy ontologies? If a non-species specific term is needed, shouldn't the annotation be to an Uberon term?