GO-CAM Working Group Call 2018-07-31

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Meeting URL

https://stanford.zoom.us/j/976175422

Agenda

Montreal Meeting - October 17- 19

Re-cap of Last Week's Call

Modeling Transcription in GO-CAM

Screenshot of Model used for Discussion

  • The top part of the model shows alternative representations of the relation between the TF and transcription.
  • The part_of relation is the agreed upon correct way to model the relationship between the TF and regulation of transcription.
  • Note that this model is still under discussion and not the final version; this screenshot represented the model as of 2018-07-24.

Relations between Transcription Factor MFs and Regulation of Transcription BPs

  • Transcription factor activity is 'part_of' regulation of transcription
  • This is consistent with the relations in the ontology and produces the correct annotations in the GPAD output file
  • A consequence of this is that any regulation terms needed for annotation will have to be instantiated in the ontology

General Rule for MFs and Regulation of BPs

  • MFs and BPs are linked by part_of (or other relations, e.g. acts upstream of, acts upstream of or within) but NOT by regulates relations

Relations between MF and Input(s)

  • has_input vs has_direct_input
  • Is there a meaningful distinction between these two relations for MF? What are we really trying to capture with MF inputs?
  • Proposal: review MF annotations using has_input
  • Right now, no changes to GO-CAM models (will continue to use has_input)

Direct vs Unknown Mechanism of Regulation

Capturing Unknown Mechanism of Regulation

  • If it is not known if the TF directly regulates the expression of a gene, then the input for the TF activity is left blank.
    • In this case, however, it is okay to use evidence from another experiment that might have shown different context (i.e. a different gene was regulated) as supporting evidence for the TF activity.
  • The curator can model the unknown mechanism of regulation by saying that the TF is part_of regulation of transcription that is causally_upstream_of_or_within the positive or negative regulation of transcription that ultimately controls the expression of the gene. The gene is then added as 'has input' to the most distal transcriptional regulatory process.

Relations between BP and input(s)

  • Duplicating has_input for MF and BP results in multiple entries in the AE field of the BP annotation in the GPAD

Relations between BP and MF of transcriptional target

Minutes

  • On call:


Root Node vs Existing Molecular Functions

  • Curators should always try to construct models using the known MF of a gene product, even if that MF was not specifically demonstrated in the paper they are annotating.
  • Associated evidence for that MF will always point back to the paper in which the MF was interrogated.
  • Creating models in this way will allow us to build on existing knowledge to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date model for a given BP.
  • If a gene product has more than one MF, curators should use the biological context of the annotated process to select the most appropriate function(s) for that gene product.