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Table 2 Numbers of annotation inconsistencies found by certain rules.

From: Formalization of taxon-based constraints to detect inconsistencies in annotation and ontology development

Constraint

Errors detected

Evidence class

GO:0030879

19

IEA

'mammary gland development'

  

only _in _taxon

  

NCBITaxon:40674

  

'Mammalia'

  

GO:0012511

21

IEA

'monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body'

  

only _in _taxon

  

NCBITaxon:33090

  

'Viridiplantae'

  

GO:0001701

51

IEA

'in utero embryonic development'

  

only _in _taxon

  

NCBITaxon:32525

  

'Theria'

  

GO:0001541

10

IEA

'ovarian follicle development'

  

only _in _taxon

  

NCBITaxon:40674

  

'Mammalia'

  

GO:0051300

13

Mixture of ISO, ISS, IEA and IMP.

'spindle pole body organization'

  

only _in _taxon

  

NCBITaxon:4751 'Fungi'

  

GO:0015979

9

IEA

'photosynthesis'

  

only _in _taxon

  

NCBITaxon_Union:0000021

  

'Viridiplantae or Bacteria or Euglenozoa or Archaea'

  

GO:0015995

9

IEA

'chlorophyll biosynthetic process'

  

only _in _taxon

  

NCBITaxon_Union:0000007

  

'Viridiplantae or Bacteria or Euglenozoa'

  
  1. A large number of inconsistencies have been found and various repairs made. This table gives a summary of the numbers of annotation errors found using a selection of the rules that we have implemented. For interpretation of evidence codes see http://www.geneontology.org/GO.evidence.shtml