[ome-users] Developmental stage

[Graham Klyne]

Ilya,

thanks for your other comments, which all seem sensible and helpful to me 
at this stage.  I'm responding to just one point here...

At 12:35 19/07/05 -0400, Ilya Goldberg wrote:
>>- developmental stages showing expression to be drawn from a fixed
>>vocabulary (based on GO).  Each possible stage to be a CategoryGroup,
>>each with Categories corresponding to Yes/No.  Thus any combination of
>>development stages can be captured and used as basis for grouping.
>
>A given image would not be associated with more than one development
>stage, would it?

In our case (as I understand the biology) it can.  The in situ images are 
of whole testes, with different developmental stages of spermatogenesis 
appearing at different places within the testis structure.   Thus a single 
image might, in principle, show that a gene is expressed during several 
different stages of sperm development.

#g


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