DictyBase, March 2010

Staff

PI: Rex Chisholm Annotators: Petra Fey, Pascale Gaudet, Robert Dodson (started September 2009) Developers: Siddhartha Basu, Yulia Bushmanova, Eric Just, (consultant)

All dictyBase staff contributes to GO activities. This is a total of 5 FTE positions. Of these we receive sufficient funding from the GO grant to support about 1.05 FTEs.

Annotation. Gene Ontology annotation is integral to the curation process at dictyBase. Annotation of gene products to GO terms is done concurrently with curation of literature, phenotypes, and sequences. All curators work to annotate gene products of the Dictyostelium genome. We import GOA annotations into dictyBase and incorporate them into our monthly gene association file.

Reference Genome Project. Pascale is manager for the Reference Genome project. All dictyBase curators annotate reference genome genes and are up-to-date with the selected orthologs. A paper describing the project has been published earlier this year: Mi et al 2010. PANTHER version 7: improved phylogenetic trees, orthologs and collaboration with the Gene Ontology Consortium. NAR Database issue [1]