TAIR March2010
TAIR, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, March 2010 (NOT FINAL, STILL IN PROGRESS)
covers the period from September 2009 to March 2010
1. Staff working on GOC tasks
Tanya Berardini, Donghui Li
The total number of FTE working on GOC tasks is 1.4.
2. Annotation progress
Table 1: Number of Annotations to Various GO Aspects
Annotations | BP (09/09) | BP (03/10) | change | MF (09/09) | MF (03/10) | change | CC (09/09) | CC (03/10) | change | |
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non-IEA/non-ND | 15584 | 16557 | + 973 | 10392 | 10942 | + 550 | 19175 | 19423 | + 248 | |
IEA | 10776 | 10529 | - 247 | 20147 | 19562 | - 585 | 10490 | 10382 | - 108 | |
ND | 14327 | 14238 | - 89 | 8820 | 8805 | - 15 | 14519 | 14470 | - 49 |
Table 2: Number of Genes Annotated to Various GO Aspects
Genes | BP (09/09) | BP (03/10) | change | MF (09/09) | MF (03/10) | change | CC (09/09) | CC (03/10) | change | |
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non-IEA/non-ND | 7263 | 7586 | + 323 | 6904 | 7125 | + 221 | 7333 | 7471 | + 138 | |
IEA | 6857 | 6719 | - 138 | 8205 | 8029 | - 180 | 7806 | 7737 | - 69 | |
ND | 14327 | 14238 | - 89 | 8819 | 8804 | - 15 | 14515 | 14466 | - 49 |
3. Methods and strategies for annotation
a. Literature curation: We continue to put most of our effort (95%) into annotation of gene products from the literature.
b. Computational annotation strategies: With every genome release, we rerun two computational GO annotation pipelines, one based on INTERPROtoGO mapping and the other based on a TargetP analysis. These results are integrated into our GO annotation file. This represents roughly 5% of our annotation effort. We integrate GOA Arabidopsis GO annotations into our gene association file so that all Arabidopsis annotations, regardless of original source, are now relayed to GO via TAIR with the appropriate source attribution.
c. Priorities for annotation:
(1) literature of any age pertaining to Reference Genome genes,
(2) literature describing the characterization of previously undescribed ('novel') genes,
(3) recent literature from high impact factor journals
4. Presentations and publications
a. Papers with substantial GO content
Hill DP, Berardini TZ, Howe DG, Van Auken KM. (2009). Representing Ontogeny Through Ontology: A Developmental Biologist’s Guide to The Gene Ontology. Mol Reprod. Dev. 77(4):314-29.
Mungall CJ, Bada M, Berardini TZ, Deegan J, Ireland A, Harris MA, Hill DP, Lomax J. (2010). Cross-Product Extensions of the Gene Ontology. J. Biomed. Inform. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.02.002
The Gene Ontology Consortium. (2010). The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements. Nucleic Acids Res. 38:D331-5. (TB, corresponding author)
b. Presentations including Talks and Tutorials and Teaching
c. Poster presentations - none
5. Other Highlights
A. Ontology Development Contributions
Donghui Li has submitted 5 SourceForge term requests on behalf of TAIR curators from October 2009 to March 2010 (each request may contain multiple terms). Of these 5 requests, 5 have been closed. 13 new GO terms have been created.
Tanya Berardini continues to work with:
I. David Hill on
- quality control reports that are generated by OBOL and reasoner, both within OBO-Edit and in external scripts. This is an ongoing effort that we address as issues arise. [[1]]
- regulation related SF items submitted by the GO community.
- development specific ontology development. Both curators attended the Annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. Ontology improvements from this meeting are detailed here [[2]]
- continuing to add interontology links between MF and BP.
II. Midori Harris, David Hill, Chris Mungall, Jen Deegan and Jane Lomax to develop cross-products within the three GO namespaces. The regulation cross-products have been released in the extended GO. David and Tanya are now quality checking the internal biological process cross-products.
III. David Hill, Varsha Khodiyar, Doug Howe, Susan Tweedie, Ruth Lovering and community experts to expand the heart development portion of the ontology.
IV. Midori Harris, David Hill, Jane Lomax and Harold Drabkin to align the representation of biochemicals in GO with CheBI.
B. Annotation outreach and user advocacy efforts
1. Tanya Berardini coordinated the writing of the 2010 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue paper for the consortium.
2. The TAIR-Plant Physiology collaboration continues to gather Arabidopsis gene function data directly from authors whose articles have just been accepted for publication. This partnership has resulted in direct author submission of function or expression information for 422 genes drawn from 104 articles published in Plant Physiology over the last 12 months (March 09 - February 10) (574 GO annotations and 35 PO annotations). We reevaluated the submission rate after last year's changes in the wording of the data request. Sampling one month's worth of papers, we found that the base submission rate had increased from 21% to about 50%.
We expanded our journal collaboration to include The Plant Journal in Fall 2009 and have received 2 submissions from Plant Journal containing function information for 3 genes (8 GO annotations and 3 PO annotations) since then.
We are currently in talks with editors and publishers from 6 additional journals: Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Journal of Experimental Botany, Plant Science, Environmental Botany, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, and Plant, Cell and Environment, to establish similar collaborations. At the same time, we are developing a web-based data submission tool that will be hosted by TAIR that can be used by authors from any journal and will accelerate the incorporation of this type of data into the TAIR database.
C. Other highlights - none