GO Editorial Office Report - April 2006
SourceForge items
Items opened 52
Closed by editorial office 40
(note: 1 SF item closed outside GO-Ed. this month; see end of
report for details and for non-GO-Ed contributors to items we
closed)
Items in progress, assigned to editorial office 74
See monthly report in CVS for ontology statistics.
Erika has provided quite a bit of detail on her recent work, which
I'll send around separately.
Content working group rough draft (Midori, with input from all GO Eds)
Content topics in progress:
Complete is_a paths for cellular component - update to get back in
sync with 'active' ontology, and almost ready to GO (Jane, with
Chris M)
Morphogenesis (Jen, with dev biol group)
Vasculature (Jen, with dev biol group)
Cell differentiation, general ontology structure (Jen, with dev biol group)
Standard definition for 'maturation' (Jen, with dev biol group)
Content topics resolved:
Development term definitions: change 'processes' to 'process' (Jen)
Several small things for SourceForge items
OBO-Edit working group update:
Working group summary (Midori)
User guide progress
IRC April 18 (next: May 4)
Testing beta18
OBO-Edit walkthrough for 'various EBI bods' (Jane)
Conferences/meetings
Post-St. Croix chats with MA to get overview of action items
BioModels.net Training Camp (organized by Nicolas le Novere, EBI)
General 'Introduction to GO' talk (Midori)
Presentation to GSK (Erika, on her work in the GO Ed. office)
Some planning for upcoming meetings, including neurobiology content
meeting and annotation camp
Publication
Book chapter in progress: 'Parasites and GO' for bioinformatics text
book for parasitologists (Jane, with Matt Berriman)
figs2go & ko2go mappings in progress (Jane, with MA on ko2go)
mesh2go mapping under discussion (Jane)
Annotation outreach (Jen)
Mailing list created for working group
Working group summary
Outreach to 'SEEDS' group
Collaboration set up between GOA and a new annotation group in Italy
Work on Roslin/GOA Chicken Consortium Grant proposal
Some updates to web pages (Amelia)
A few queries on the mailing list (mainly Midori)
GO Bibliography now has 835 entries
Appendix 1: input from others on SF items closed this month
1025157 - many! (This is the 'new look cell cycle entry, on which many
curators and a few PIs commented, both in the SF entry and
by email. Major contributors include Val Wood, Chandra
Theesfeld.)
1427382 (& 1473287) - Becky Foulger, Karen Christie
1428548 - Melissa Haendel, Doug Howe
1435926 - Karen Christie
1446726 - Karen Christie
1472538 - Becky Foulger, Alex Diehl
1476809 - Becky Foulger, David Hill
Appendix 2: SF items that touch on other OBO ontologies
1428548 - CL