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rule |
GORULE:0000002 |
No 'NOT' annotations to 'protein binding ; GO:0005515' |
Implemented |
soft |
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Even if an identifier is available in the 'with' column, a qualifier only informs on the GO term, it cannot instruct users to restrict the annotation to just the protein identified in the 'with', therefore an annotation applying protein binding ; GO:0005515 with the not qualifier implies that the annotated protein cannot bind anything.
This is such a wide-reaching statement that few curators would want to make.
This rule only applies to GO:0005515; children of this term can be qualified with not, as further information on the type of binding is then supplied in the GO term; e.g. not + NFAT4 protein binding ; GO:0051529 would be fine, as the negative binding statement only applies to the NFAT4 protein.
For more information, see the binding guidelines on the GO wiki.