Manager 4December2013

Agenda Items

Present: Rama, Rachael, Pascale, Jane, Chris, Huaiyu, Kimberly, Paul T.

• GOC Progress Reports
  • For grant specific aims, send items to Judy?
  • What time frame is required? From March 1st 2013
  • Is this a nine month report?
  • Paul T. - can just write the report for the past year

• Conference Call - Extending Protein2GO to non-UniProtKB identifiers
  • Participating groups so far: UniProt-GOA, SGD, Berkeley, WB, FlyBase, MGI, AgBase
  • Missing: Ecoli Wiki, BHF-UCL, DFLAT
  • Best time so far is Monday, 9/12 at 12:00pm EST, but need Tony and/or Maria
  • Spreadsheet asking for:
    • Types of identifiers
    • Approximate number of expected annotations - 10s, 100s, 1000s?
    • Stability of IDs - can they be mapped forward with updates? how frequently to update?

• Histone-Specific Annotations
  • Is this an ontology issue or annotation issue or both?
  • Jane - need to devise strategies for how we might handle this
  • Chris - coordinate with PRO wherever possible
  • One issue - how well are residues conserved amongst different species?
  • Having some real data, use cases would be helpful here; Val might have some examples
  • On next annotation call try to come up with a plan of action