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Ontology Development & GO Editorial Office Report - August 2009
I. Ontology Development
- SourceForge
- Items opened: 81
- Items closed: 75
- Items still open: 263
- assigned: 206
- unassigned: 57
- Content items resolved
- New terms from Society for Developmental Biology meeting (see July report)
- Several SourceForge items resolved
- Content items in progress
- The plan to add internal cross-products to the go_write (and therefore also go_ext) file is in progress.
- Work continues on terms for kidney development
- Evaluating new link suggestions and mismatches from ChEBI cross-products
- Continuing to add function-process part-of links in gene_ontology_write.obo and gene_ontology_ext.obo
- Work continues on overhauling terms related to viruses
- Signal transduction overhaul is going very well; see Signaling_Meeting_Minutes_July_2009#3rd_August_2009 for latest notes (Jen and experts including Sandra Orchard)
- Also continuing
- Additional progress on Cellular component organization and biogenesis, in light of internal cross-products
- Taxon triggers; currently moving "sensu" information from synonyms to definitions (see Taxon-GO_Implementation_April_2009_onwards#5th_August_2009 and Taxon-GO_Implementation_August_28th_2009_onwards for latest)
- Work on branching organ development (David)
- Discussion on transcription factor activity and DNA binding; will take to Sept. meeting (email thread)
- Discussion on cellular component vs. cellular location; will take to Sept. meeting
- Quality control continues as usual - reports generated by Chris
- Regulation - also see above (David, Tanya)
- Multiple part_of parents (several GO curators, especially Tanya & David)
- Various SourceForge items
- Deprecated .ontology file format retired August 1st - see Managers_21Jan09 and GO_Timeline
See monthly report in CVS for ontology statistics.
II. GO Editorial Office activities not represented in part I
- OBO-Edit working group:
- Continued testing of OBO-Edit 2.1 beta
- See meeting minutes from August 4, 13 and 25, and monthly report
- ICBO presentations (see above)
- Advocacy/outreach (Jane, Jen)
- See monthly report
- Anything else
- GO bibliography has 2829 entries