Procedure for selection of target genes (Retired)

This is in progress: please fill in any information you find useful as you use this page. Also, if we change our guidelines this will be reflected here.

Rotation Order

This is the list of which group is responsible for selecting curation targets for the next year:

November 2007: Arabidopsis thaliana
December 2007: Caenorhabditis elegans
January 2008: Danio rerio
February 2008: Dictyostelium discoideum
March 2008: Drosophila melanogaster
April 2008: Escherichia coli
May 2008: Gallus gallus
June 2008: Homo sapiens
July 2008: Mus musculus
August 2008: Rattus norvegicus
September 2008: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
October 2008: Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Guidelines

Try to select related genes (same pathway, same disease, same gene family)
Check that the gene is not already done (easiest to search by UniProt ID)
Enter all ID in the Master Table. The Human Genome Nomenclature Committee's site is a nice source for those IDs, HGNC search tool. Please separate all names by commas and remove any non-required character (tabs, line feed, etc)
For disease genes, enter the OMIM ID of the disease or a PMID of a paper describing the gene's implication in a disease

Disease genes

OMIM Morbid Map

(also in the 'Suggestion' google spreadsheet; please mark those you select)

Conserved Human-E.coli

list of genes is in the 'Suggestions' spreadsheet (look for the "conserved Hs-Ec" sheet)
enter the ensemble ID in YOGY
find the UniProt ID from the YOGY summary tables
check the 'master list' to make sure the gene has not previously been selected

Bleeding edge genes

Recent highlighted articles in your database
Science Daily
Medline
AAAS's EurekAlert
Expasy Spotlight
other suggestions welcome

Biochemical/signaling pathways

Try picking 5 genes form the same pathway