May2006 GO Ed report
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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