GO Editorial Office Report - October 2005
SourceForge items
Items opened 75
Closed by editorial office 100
(note: no SF items closed outside GO-Ed. this month)
In progress, assigned to editorial office 53
note: for several SF items, we are waiting for replies to
messages sent to the mailing list
See monthly report in CVS for ontology statistics.
Content topics in progress:
Development (Jen)
morpogenesis
Transporters (Jen)
Examination of part_of relations in GO cellular component (Jane)
Cellular component additions for MetaCyc (mainly Midori, also Jane)
Reviewing Obol output for GO-Cell type integration (all, especially
Midori & Amelia, with Chris M)
Content topics resolved:
Development (Jen)
eye morphogenesis
axon regeneration
neurogenesis
small things for SourceForge entries
Very preliminary work towards making GO and Reactome more consistent
(Midori, with Lisa Matthews)
Conferences/meetings
Proposals for content meeting (Amelia, Jane)
self/non-self processes
true path problems in cell death (Amelia)
Organizing GO full day workshop for PAG 2006 (Jen)
Paper published:
Lomax J, The Gene Ontology Consortium
Get ready to GO! A biologist's guide to the Gene Ontology.
Brief Bioinform. 2005 ; 6: 298-304 PMID: 16212777
GO Survey put online; responses continuing to come in 1st week Nov;
summary in next report
Annotation outreach (Jen)
Negotiating with Farm Animal people to get annotating group started
in Europe. (This is now a draft proposal for chicken annotation
from Dave Burt, under consideration by all groups.)
Database
Some updates to web pages
Scripts (Amelia, Jen)
Mailing list quiet again
GO Bibliography now has 639 entries