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I'm not sure how to add genes to the essentials list that were reported as non-essential by Gerdes, but have been shown by other, "low-throughput" methods to be essential.  I've added the strains in question to the essential evidence table.  In general, I don't like the methodology for adding essential genes back to the list.  Some of the Keio strains have known problems, but removing the bad alleles from the gene pages seems like a mistake; after all, these alleles are still availabe from CGSC.  I originally edited these alleles to say that they were not good (duplications), which seems like a better way of letting people know that the mutation is bad, rather than sweeping it under the rug.
I'm not sure how to add genes to the essentials list that were reported as non-essential by Gerdes, but have been shown by other, "low-throughput" methods to be essential.  I've added the strains in question to the essential evidence table.  In general, I don't like the methodology for adding essential genes back to the list.  Some of the Keio strains have known problems, but removing the bad alleles from the gene pages seems like a mistake; after all, these alleles are still availabe from CGSC.  I originally edited these alleles to say that they were not good (duplications), which seems like a better way of letting people know that the mutation is bad, rather than sweeping it under the rug.
I agree that this page needs work.  I am thinking that the way to do this is to have a set of tags in the phenotype tables that would allow this page to harvest information from individual gene pages, including notes on problematic assignments.
--[[User:JimHu|JimHu]] ([[User talk:JimHu|talk]]) 11:20, 29 May 2013 (CDT)

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I'm not sure how to add genes to the essentials list that were reported as non-essential by Gerdes, but have been shown by other, "low-throughput" methods to be essential. I've added the strains in question to the essential evidence table. In general, I don't like the methodology for adding essential genes back to the list. Some of the Keio strains have known problems, but removing the bad alleles from the gene pages seems like a mistake; after all, these alleles are still availabe from CGSC. I originally edited these alleles to say that they were not good (duplications), which seems like a better way of letting people know that the mutation is bad, rather than sweeping it under the rug.

I agree that this page needs work. I am thinking that the way to do this is to have a set of tags in the phenotype tables that would allow this page to harvest information from individual gene pages, including notes on problematic assignments. --JimHu (talk) 11:20, 29 May 2013 (CDT)