GO Editorial Office Report - May 2006
SourceForge items
Items opened 60
Closed by editorial office 31
(note: 3 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 71
See monthly report in CVS for ontology statistics.
Content topics in progress:
'Response to drug' and similar terms to become obsolete, replaced by
terms organized by ChEBI molecular structure ontology (all GO Eds,
plus many curators, esp. Alex Diehl)
Brain development, following content meeting (Jen, Erika, David
Hill, neuro experts)
Receptor complexes (Erika; see below)
Synapses; resting potential (Erika; see below)
'Rehoming' unlocalized protein complexes
Content topics resolved:
Complete is_a paths for cellular component committed! (Jane, with
Chris M)
Several small things for SourceForge items
Erika's project:
Content meeting preparation, esp. telencephalon
Annotation for NMDA receptors
Read articles about CRH and collect information for creating a
future CRH pathway
Open SF item:
1484510 kainate receptor complex
1483863 resting potential
1483801 AMPA receptor complex
1483728 Synaptic maturation
1481900 asymmetric and symmetric synapse
Content working group update:
The two proposed content-related groups have merged, under joint
leadership (David Hill and Midori); a draft of a merged summary
document is in progress.
OBO-Edit working group update:
User guide complete
IRCs May 4, 11, 25
Lots of testing to prepare for release
OBO-Edit 1.000 released June 1st!
Note - OBO-Edit work accounts for quite a bit of our time this month
AmiGO working group (Jane, Amelia)
Mockups for new display (Amelia)
Advocacy group update:
Jane has joined as co-leader with Eurie
gohelp list created (thanks, Mike!); organization for replying,
collecting list of whom-to-ask, FAQ additions, etc. in progress.
First newsletter released by newsletter group; this time around
GO-Ed contributions were mainly proofreading and other small
comments on drafts.
Conferences/meetings
GSK presentations at Harlow and Stevenage (Erika; Jen also went
along on the visit)
Continued planning for upcoming meetings, including neurobiology
content meeting, annotation camp, and GO Users meeting
Publication
Book chapter in progress: 'Parasites and GO' for bioinformatics text
book for parasitologists (Jane, with Matt Berriman)
Visit from Colin Batchelor from Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Publishing, planning for RSC to mark up journals with controlled
vocabulary terms including GO; Jane has sent some details {note -
still not public!)
figs2go & ko2go mappings in progress (Jane, with MA on ko2go)
mesh2go mapping under discussion (Jane)
Rfam2go mapping contributed by Rfam staff
Annotation outreach (Jen)
Some updates to web pages, including newsletter links (Amelia)
A few queries on the mailing list (mainly Jane); gohelp list is being
taken up nicely
GO Bibliography now has 872 entries
Appendix 1: input from others on SF items closed this month
929957 - Tanya Berardini, Pankaj Jaiswal
1438210 - Pascale Gaudet
1459965 - Tanya Berardini, David Hill, Doug Howe
1460050 - Val Wood, Shelley Sazer (domain expert)
1472296 - several curators, and Chris Mungall
1477662 - Karen Christie, Val Wood
1480569 - David Hill, Doug Howe
1487660, 1487620, 1452868 - Ranjana Kishore
1482641, 1452866, 1482638 - Alex Diehl, Ranjana Kishore
Appendix 2: SF items closed outside GO Ed
1439512 - assigned to Tanya Berardini; also Pankaj Jaiswal, Jen Clark
1439513 - assigned to Tanya Berardini; also Pankaj Jaiswal, Jen Clark
1438331 - assigned to Tanya Berardini; also Suparna Mundodi, Jen
Clark, Karen Christie, Midori Harris