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  "id": 638470,
  "title": "Are GO ontology accumulated and expanded only based on the Gene Ontology database?",
  "url": "/competitions/cafa-6-protein-function-prediction/discussion/638470",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-11-23T15:12:03.796240900Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>At first, thank you for organizing this competition.\nAs far as I understand, after we submit our predictions, additional GO ontology annotations may be experimentally discovered for the proteins included in the train set.\nIn that case, will the newly added GO ontology terms be restricted only to those that already exist in the go-basic.obo file?\nOr will GO terms that are newly introduced into the Gene Ontology after the submission period also be considered and added?</p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for your clarification.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "3345592",
      "postDate": "11/23/2025 15:12:03",
      "content": "<p>At first, thank you for organizing this competition.\nAs far as I understand, after we submit our predictions, additional GO ontology annotations may be experimentally discovered for the proteins included in the train set.\nIn that case, will the newly added GO ontology terms be restricted only to those that already exist in the go-basic.obo file?\nOr will GO terms that are newly introduced into the Gene Ontology after the submission period also be considered and added?</p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for your clarification.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "At first, thank you for organizing this competition.\nAs far as I understand, after we submit our predictions, additional GO ontology annotations may be experimentally discovered for the proteins included in the train set.\nIn that case, will the newly added GO ontology terms be restricted only to those that already exist in the go-basic.obo file?\nOr will GO terms that are newly introduced into the Gene Ontology after the submission period also be considered and added?\n\nThank you in advance for your clarification.",
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    {
      "id": "3346594",
      "postDate": "11/24/2025 14:14:16",
      "content": "<p>Yes, the newly added GO terms will be restricted only to those already existed in the go-basic.obo. New GO terms introduced into the Gene Ontology won't be considered. Unless these new GO terms have a 1-to-1 mapping with the pre-existing GO terms via \"alternate id\", in that case we will map the new GO terms back into terms existing in go-basic.obo.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes, the newly added GO terms will be restricted only to those already existed in the go-basic.obo. New GO terms introduced into the Gene Ontology won't be considered. Unless these new GO terms have a 1-to-1 mapping with the pre-existing GO terms via \"alternate id\", in that case we will map the new GO terms back into terms existing in go-basic.obo.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3346766",
      "postDate": "11/24/2025 16:25:44",
      "content": "<p>I understand. Thank you for answer!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I understand. Thank you for answer!",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3346594,
      "author_name": "ahphan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/24/2025 14:14:16",
      "content": "<p>Yes, the newly added GO terms will be restricted only to those already existed in the go-basic.obo. New GO terms introduced into the Gene Ontology won't be considered. Unless these new GO terms have a 1-to-1 mapping with the pre-existing GO terms via \"alternate id\", in that case we will map the new GO terms back into terms existing in go-basic.obo.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3346766,
          "author_name": "bibidibabidivu",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/24/2025 16:25:44",
          "content": "<p>I understand. Thank you for answer!</p>",
          "votes": null,
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        }
      ]
    }
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    "3345592": "At first, thank you for organizing this competition.\nAs far as I understand, after we submit our predictions, additional GO ontology annotations may be experimentally discovered for the proteins included in the train set.\nIn that case, will the newly added GO ontology terms be restricted only to those that already exist in the go-basic.obo file?\nOr will GO terms that are newly introduced into the Gene Ontology after the submission period also be considered and added?\n\nThank you in advance for your clarification.",
    "3346594": "Yes, the newly added GO terms will be restricted only to those already existed in the go-basic.obo. New GO terms introduced into the Gene Ontology won't be considered. Unless these new GO terms have a 1-to-1 mapping with the pre-existing GO terms via \"alternate id\", in that case we will map the new GO terms back into terms existing in go-basic.obo.",
    "3346766": "I understand. Thank you for answer!"
  },
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}