Nov2005 GO Ed report

GO Editorial Office Report - November 2005

SourceForge items
  Items opened	70
  Closed by editorial office	42
   (note: no SF items closed outside GO-Ed. this month; see end of
    report for non-GO-Ed contributors to items we closed)
  Items in progress, assigned to editorial office	59

See monthly report in CVS for ontology statistics.

Content topics in progress:
  Topics from content meeting; see below
  Cellular component additions for TAIR/MetaCyc (Midori, with others
    including Peifen Zhang at TAIR; actually almost done)
  Complete is_a paths for cellular component (Jane, with Chris M)

Content topics resolved:
  Several small things for SourceForge items  


Conferences/meetings
  Content meeting (TIGR, Nov. 15-16) went very well
    immunology-related processes (Alex Diehl, MGI)
    self/non-self processes (Amelia and Jane, with Candace Collmer and
      Alan Collmer of PAMGO)
    interaction between organisms (same people as above)
    true path problems in cell death (Amelia)
  Grant meeting, Banbury
  Phenotype meeting, CSHL
  Preparations for PAG (Jen)

GO Survey closed
 - preliminary analysis of results done at grant meeting (all,
     especially Amelia and Jane)
     categorizing free responses took quite a bit of time and effort;
     thanks to Amelia for taking on most of the tough ones!
 - further analysis in progress (Jane, with Rex Chisholm)

Paperwork for grant year 6 (Midori, Jane)

Mips2go mapping update almost done (Jane)

GO slim work, including a script (Amelia)

Annotation outreach (Jen)
  Work on database setup
  Bovine annotation contacts, including a conference call involving
    Affymetrix
  Some other groups

Some updates to web pages

Mailing list quiet again

GO Bibliography now has 657 entries


Appendix: input from others on SF items closed this month
1343844	SGD curators
1363147	DictyBase curators, SGD/TGD curators
1307985	Nicolas le Novere, Erika Feltrin
1307327	Pascale Gaudet (DDB), David Hill (MGI)
1348617	Karen Christie (SGD)