---
layout: rule
id: GORULE:0000008
title: "No annotations should be made to uninformative high level terms"
type: report
fail_mode: soft
status: implemented
contact: "go-quality@lists.stanford.edu"
implementations:
  - language: python
    source: https://github.com/biolink/ontobio/blob/master/ontobio/io/qc.py
examples:
  fail:
    - comment: fails because GO:0005622 is in the subset gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate
      format: gaf
      input: "UniProtKB	Q9DGE2	mapk14a		GO:0005622	PMID:10995439	IDA		C	Mitogen-activated protein kinase 14A	mapk14a|mapk14	protein	taxon:7955	20180129	UniProt"
    - comment: fails because GO:0000910 is in the subset gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate
      format: gaf
      input: "UniProtKB	Q9WVH3	Foxo4		GO:0000910	PMID:12048180	IDA		P	Forkhead box protein O4	Foxo4|Afx|Afx1	protein	taxon:10090	20110425	MGI"
  pass: 
    - comment: Should pass
      format: gaf
      input: "UniProtKB	Q9WVH3	Foxo4		GO:0007095	PMID:12048180	IDA		P	Forkhead box protein O4	Foxo4|Afx|Afx1	protein	taxon:10090	20110425	MGI"

---
Some terms are too high-level to provide useful information when used
for annotation, regardless of the evidence code used.

We provide and maintain the list of too high-level terms as two subsets
in the ontology:

-   gocheck\_do\_not\_annotate "Term not to be used for direct
    annotation"
-   gocheck\_do\_not\_manually\_annotate "Term not to be used for direct
    manual annotation"

Both subsets denote high level terms, not to be used for any manual
annotation.

For inferred electronic annotations (IEAs), we allow the use of terms
from the gocheck\_do\_not\_manually\_annotate subset. These terms may
still offer some general information, but a human curator should always
be able to find a more specific annotation.

Error report: <group>.report.md