2011 USC Meeting Action Items

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Action items from the 2011 USC meeting


  • Annotation: Report on taxon constraints needs to be implemented ASAP!

Task: email report out, check of CVS web

Responsible: Chris - either implement email report or implement new system (gaf validator)

  • Annotation: Contact Rama and Emily if you can help organizing and editing the annotation pages on the GO website

Responsible: GO-TOP

  • Annotation: Continue to work on the guidelines. Ask the go-discuss email list for suggestions; ideas: (i) improve IMP/downstream events; (ii) cellular versus multicellular level annotation

Responsible: Rama and Emily will moderate, include in annotation calls


  • GO Help: create an aggregator for GO-related stuff on other sites - BioStar, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Boing Boing, etc.

Task: Done already, put link on wiki

Responsible: Seth

  • GO Help: designate a point person for software group queries (Seth seems to have volunteered)

Responsible: Seth, other software group members

  • GO Help: if you're interested in joining GO help--and it's very rewarding, great fun, and a superb way to enhance your day--please contact Rama and Emily.

Responsible: GO-TOP


  • Evidence Codes: convene a working group to discuss ECO in more depth and propose a plan for implementation in the GOC.

Responsible: GO-TOP and Marcus


  • Annotation deliverables: What are the annotation items that we are going to present to the world? Formulate guidelines and deliverables.

Part of QC, find ways to distribute quality control results and assess display of GO on external web sites

Emily will send out wiki page for comments

Responsible: Emily (to start)


  • Ontology development: comments on annotation should go into GONUTS (e.g. how to annotate transcription factors), not the GO wiki.

Responsible: Annotation group needs to tell ontology developers where they want to find the information

Make sure to capture notes from transcription overhaul, etc.

  • Ontology development: notification of GO changes to GO friends

Responsible: ontology editors upon term obsoletion

Responsible: ontology editors communicate about project (beginning, end) when major changes are being made


  • Ontology development: weekly emails to GO list containing new terms
  • Ontology development: daily email to GO list containing def differences
  • Ontology development: make available differences in some kind of parseable format
  • Ontology development: get GOing on the integral to qualifier now that everyone is crystal clear on how has part works.
  • Ontology development: to request from everyone to provide a short description of their expertise, so that they can ask appropriate curators when needing input for SF requests
  • Ontology development: open Term Genie to the world
  • Ontology development: make available a term wishlist for Term Genie so that people know which terms are requested


  • PRO: feel free to use PRO IDs in col 17 and ask the PRO team for new IDs. No formal shift to PRO for the time being.


  • Col 16: work out what relations are needed and document them fully. David has volunteered to (and is in the process of) looking through all MGI structured notes since 2002 to work out which relations are required.


  • Software: discuss modularization strategy in OBO-Edit--e.g. having taxon constraints in the OBO file--as well as other information requested by specific groups


  • Ref Genome: devise a method for handling the individual references for families; they have to be loaded into every member DB, which causes all manner of problems


  • Website: write some top notch documentation on the integral to qualifier


  • Common Annotation Tool: get a requirements working group to work everything out
  • Common Annotation Tool: (Community Annotation) Use Val's "Tool With No Name" for the community annotation tool; implement on the GO site


  • GPI and GPAD: work out specs, scripts, advantages, disadvantages and a time scale. Another working group to the rescue!




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