WormBase December 2012
WormBase Summary, December 2012
Overview
WormBase has two main tasks. One is to work on Aim 4 (Common Annotation Framework), which is described under Software Group. The second is annotation. Most of our efforts over the past year were directed towards software development; remaining efforts were focused on annotation.
Staff:
WormBase
- Paul Sternberg, PI
- Juancarlos Chan, software developer
- Ranjana Kishore, curator
- Kimberly Van Auken, curator
Textpresso
- Hans Michael Mueller, PI
- James Done, software developer
- Yuling Li, software developer
Annotation Progress
WormBase GO Annotation Statistics as of December 2012
Table 1: Number of Genes Annotated
Type of Annotation | Genes Annotated, Dec 2012 | % Change from Dec 2011 | Number of Unique GO Terms | % Change from 2011 | Total Number of GO Terms | % Change from Dec 2011 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Manual Annotation | 2,601 | +9.93 | 2,310 | +17.8 | 13392 | +16.9 |
Phenotype2GO Mappings | 6,423 | +3.1 | 116 | +0.87 | 44,256 | +2.9 |
IEA/Electronic | 13,739 | +1.0 | 1,548 | +3.4 | 55,091 | -6.1 |
Total | 16,493 | +1.4 | 3,420 | +4.8 | 106,604 | +2.6 |
Methods and strategies for annotation
Literature curation:
Literature curation continues to be the major focus of our annotation efforts.
Computational annotation strategies:
As always, current strategies involve use of translation table to mine SwissProt keywords, InterPro domains, and EC numbers for IEA annotation. These are performed automatically on a nightly basis and require little human intervention.
Priorities for annotation
Kimberely Van Auken is developing GO-CAT.
Ranjana Kishore particpated in the PAINT training workshop in December 2012.
Ranjana Kishore is working on evaluation of website usability.
Caltech hosted the GOC meeting in October 2012.
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