2012 Annotation Meeting Stanford

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Agenda

Goals

  • Intent is not to go over annotation specifics (how to annotate, what evidence etc, all of which can be done well over annotation conf. calls). Should focus on Annotation as a process and not the thing. How to facilitate the process of annotation?
  • Should enable developers to gather ideas for the CAF
  • Possibly open protein2GO or the Pombase community annotation tool to curators so they can give feedback on what works and what doesn't
  • Pick a subprocess as the theme and see the evolution of the ontology and annotations related to the subprocess
  • dedicated session on PAINT training (hands on training) to propagate annotations made on the subprocess
  • Possibly develop a model for annotating complexes and build on col-16 curation


Ideas from PIs

TITLE: Supporting Curation of Annotations in the GOC

1. Common Annotation Tool; Streaming annotations into AmiGO

  • Establishing requirements and their priorities (Kimberly)
  • software implementation strategy (Chris)

2. Process-focused Annotation Approach

  • incorporating experiment, ontology deve, domain experts, phylogenetic inferencing
  • using transcription and sub-process of apoptosis

3. Resolving Perennial Annotation Issues ( one or more) (what are they? list !!)

  • pre-developed proposal essential
  • decision making process has to be clarified
  • need to have input from parties

4. Metrics: Quality and Completeness of Annotations

  • quality control of annotation streams
  • capturing evidence and source
  • help for users in using annotations correctly
  • ranking literature for curation
  • evaluating annotation 'currency'



Proposed Agenda

Sunday afternoon: 1pm until 4:30pm

"How do we become an Efficient Annotation Factory?"

Discussion: Goals: the "gold standard" for GO annotations

  • Depth of annotation: What are the components of a "gold standard" GO annotation?
  • Breadth of annotation: How can MODs achieve full genome coverage?
  • Where are we now?
  • Post-meeting action item: practical plan for getting from the current state to the "gold standard" (or as close to it as possible)


Discussion: what should the annotation process be?

  • Process and Lessons learned from previous literature curation efforts. Focus is on how the processes might be generalized, with specific details only as supporting examples.
    • domain-specific curation and ontology development
      • transcription overhaul
      • apoptosis annotation
    • Swiss-Prot GO term curation process
  • Phylogenetic inference: Synthesis, QA and inference across organisms using PAINT
  • Post-meeting action items: practical plans to implement process, and for how individual curation groups can contribute



Monday

Making the GO annotation process of the future

Towards a common annotation framework

* Kimberly to report on spec for CAF.

  • Kimberly is currently talking to all curation groups about individual GO annotation tools, what features they have and what features curators would like.
  • Therefore, by the GO Consortium meeting, Kimberly will be able to present the features that GOC curators feel are most important.
  • Subsequent discussion on:
    • any other aspects curators would require in an annotation tool.
    • What additional data should be supplied by annotation groups
    • How best to use textmining in the CAF for prioritizing curation work (e.g. Textpresso)

* Val to report on the Community Annotation Tool (PomBase)

    • This is a PomBase tool that is being developed by Kim to include GOC requirements to make it become available to community experts, who would like to submit small sets of GO annotations to the GO Consortium, which would then need to be reviewed by GOC groups. (Kim and PomBase will be keeping Kimberly and the CAF working group in the loop as to developments)
    • Discussion on how best to advertise tool to community and how to manage annotation submissions within the Consortium.

Phylogenetic inference process

* PAINT

A focused annotation session for ~10 GO annotators (limit decided due to need for the session to be manageable and productive). Led by Pascale.

    • Annotators would be selected on the basis:

- as well as those with previous training in PAINT annotation (e.g. Mike L., Rama, Li Ni, Donghui) - no training, however strong possibility in using PAINT later on to create GO annotations (e.g. GO NIH funded curators)

    • Annotations to transfer would be selected on the basis of recent annotation work by GO Consortium groups that are now in the GO database, to terms from the ontology which have been reviewed and likely to remain stable (e.g. from the recent transcription annotation effort)
    • Time required: minimum: 5 hours.

Tuesday


Evaluating efficiency

metrics discussion:

    • how best to measure annotation progress?
    • Possible stats: Count of new terms used in annotation? Count of comprehensively annotated gene products? Count of EXP-evidenced annotations, Count of species with new annotation sets? Count of new checks implemented?
    • what combination of stats would best reflect our curation efforts?
    • How can the selected set of metrics be most effectively created, what information do groups need to be ready to supply the GOC with?

Making annotation public

    • How do we enable intelligent consumption of GO and annotations, especially of new functionality/expressivity?



Preparation needed in advance of GO Consortium meeting

GO annotation calls.

There are only 5 annotation calls scheduled before the GOC meeting. Therefore we need to use this time wisely. If we have one major topic per call, perhaps it could be:

1. Annotation to ‘contributes_to’

2. Default gp-GO term Relationship definitions

3. Protein Binding

4. Column 16

5. Focused apoptosis annotation discussion.

...with a regular slot for a couple of QC checks, to get the uncontentious ones agreed upon and if possible, implemented, before GOC meeting,

Work outside of the GO annotation calls to be discussed on GO list?

  • ISS/IC issue brought up by Ruth at the GOC meeting. A proposal almost ready to be emailed to GO list (Emily, Ruth)
  • Column 17 concerns; developing the GAF spec; from recent emails by Amelia (Amelia, Mike, Chris)
  • Documentation for GPAD format, creation of regularly updated directory on GOC site using (Tony, Chris, Amelia)
  • Resolving annotation filtering on GOC site where groups responsible for a species are not (Mike, UniProt-GOA)
  • IGI and ‘with’ field? (new item raised by SGD)
  • Documentation that needs to be created to support wider use of IKR (Emily, UniProt-GOA)