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==Operations and Procedures== | ==Operations and Procedures== |
Revision as of 12:04, 10 October 2007
GO Managers, Weds. Oct. 10 8 AM PDT / 10 AM CDT / 11 AM EDT / 4 PM BST
Agenda/chair: Midori
Minutes: Pascale
Present: Chris, Midori, Jen, Pascale, Judy, David
Review Action Items from previous meeting
- Display replaced_by & consider tags in AmiGO (Chris/swug)
DONE, Chris: you can see this in AmiGO already although the way it's done needs to be cleaned
- Finish & submit NAR update (Midori)
DONE, accepted
- Several meeting preparation tasks - reports, wiki additions, etc. (all managers)
DONE, obviously
Individual Manager reports
Ontology Development
- Jen and David are cleaning the muscle and cardio file and will send out an announcement within the next week or so
- Lung development is next: new file should be committed in November in the scratch directory; there will be a contents meeting about this in December in Boston
- regulates: David is updating the live file, correcting terms that 'regulates' a process that does not exist. He's done about 1/10th of it. Then it will be possible to run tests to implement the regulates relationship
- few term of transport need to be fixed
- Suzi: what about using 'biologically friendly terms'? David: I think we agreed at the GOC meeting to use them; Jen: sometimes that will mean two terms have the same name (it's okay)
Outreach / User Advocacy
- Jen: taking care of outreach and advocacy: checking that help gets answered and that the next newsletter is happening
- Edinburgh farm animal meeting: should she attend?
- Judy: I think we may skip that one since you already know those people and they are waiting for funding for annotation; let's wait for them to get funding (Jen: okay, not much missed if not going)
Software
Chris
- Amelia is in Berkeley working with Seth on AmiGO
- Worked on ref genome reports
- ready to load the google spreadsheets in a temporary database, so they will be able to put the information in a public database (will not solve curation problems)
- John leaving! several people are familiar with the code
- Jen: if there are other requests for documentation, we should do it now
[ACTION ITEM] Midori- will create a new category in the Feature requests SF tracker
Reference Genomes
Pascale We had the first reference genome meeting after the GOC meeting, see Reference_Genome_minutes We got about 15 action items out of the meeting. We are nicely moving towards communicating more when annotating. We plan to meet again next year.
Meetings
- Judy: Mammalian Genome meeting Tokyo (October)
- Biocurator: San Jose, CA (end of Oct)
- Midori and Emily, Erika are going to EU Network of excellence (Italy)
- December: Karen, Barry, Judy, maybe Suzi: GO, MGI, PIR/protein ontology
- May: Fiona setting up a chicken annotation workshop: Judy, Harold, others
- GO annotation camp: we talked about doing it in Stanford
Collaborations and Interactions, active and new
nothing reported
Operations and Procedures
Staffing and Personnel
John has been Googled!!
Budget issues
Publications
- NAR manuscript accepted!
- Current Protocols in Bioinformatics article update (Judy & Midori)
Other Current Topics and Concerns
Annotation: Do we want to encourage submission of annotations of alternate spliceforms?
Judy summaries: the ref genome group is aware that the annotation of multiple splice forms can pose problems: - we need to know which product we are annotating and we need to know which gene this gene product belongs to.
- Do we need another column?
- Chris: at the RefG meeting we talked about using a mapping, similar to the gp2protein file, which can have a one-to-many relationship
- Chris: can I have a feel for how many groups do it? MGI (structured notes), rat, who?
- Suzi: would everyone NEED to to it?
- Judy, no
- Chris: there are two ways of doing it: for eg, if MGI has two splice variants, they use the gene ID, and if they know the splice variant, they include that in the structured note; the other way is like UniProt, which maps all back to the 'parent' gene. UniProt also uses s suffix (people don't really like to encode information in the ID)
- two options: (1)add splice variant ID in gene_id column or (2) in new column
- Suzi prefers the first option because it seems 'cleaner'; annotate to the actual product having activity; however several issues with that (which product used is not always specified, etc), so generally option 2 is favored
- Suzi: does that also include non-gene things like ESTs?
-David: that rises an interesting point: if there is an unpublished variant
[ACTION ITEM]: Chris will write a proposal for how to deal with this (including adding a new column?)
MicroRNA annotations
- Chris: Is it possible to allow more granular annotation so that someone can find all miRNAs, for example (GO help question earlier this week)?
- Pascale: isn't that dealt with in column 12 or so? and use SO terms there
- Yes but everyone has 'gene' there
- Should we not be annotating to gene products? yes, but most people do not do it yet
- Midori: we hadn't decided which part of SO we can use
-Suzi: I thought all SO terms were allowed (that made sense in that context)
- Suzi: back to microRNAs: there is the gene, the transcript, and the gene product (processed transcript)
- David: how does the SO treat the miRNAs?
- All gene products are grouped by functional categories; for mRNAs, is the SO talking about the pre-miRNA or the processed miRNA?
- Chris: I think they are both represented. If the SO needs to be fixed we'll do it.
- David: also, the miRNA field is changing really fast [ACTION ITEM]: (Think about) updating documentation to state that all terms from SO are accepted. Chris: we need to do this with/after dealing with the splice variants.