Oct2006 GO Ed report
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GO Editorial Office Report - October 2006
SourceForge items Items opened 75 Closed by editorial office 29 (note: 20 SF items 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. Erika's project: Jen and Erika communicate weekly via Skype. Erika has presented a full plan for the 'response to' terms under response to drug to the response to drug interest group, which she will implement. She has offered to present her plan for drug transport and Xenobiotic terms at the consortium meeting in January. Erika's supervisor, Giorgio Valle, will contact Judy about a content meeting on muscle development; if a meeting is held, the Valle group would host and fund it. Content topics in progress: Is_a complete biological process (also see content wg below) Damaged DNA binding terms (Midori, with RefGen group, esp. Varsha & Eurie) Cardiac muscle terms, round 2 (Jen, with Varsha) Content topics resolved: Cardiac muscle terms, round 1 (Jen, with Doug, David Hill, David Fashena) Lateral line development (Jen, with Doug Howe) Several small things for SourceForge items Content working group update: Is_a complete BP well under way GO Eds and David Hill met in Hinxton Oct. 2-3. Since the meeting, Jane, Jen and David, and sometimes Tanya, have had frequent conference calls to continue work. As of the end of Oct., there are no more is_a orphans. Much more detail about the work plan, questions arising, outstanding issus, etc. are on the wiki (http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Isa-complete_BP). Management plans Fortnightly IRC or web conference "meetings"; the first few will focus on the is_a complete BP work Plan for assigning SF items to MOD curators based on areas of expertise OBO-Edit working group update: Application Note manuscript submitted to Bioinformatics OBO-Edit 1.1 beta testing in progress Revised plan for OBO-Edit 2.0 (formerly 1.2) features AmiGO working group (Jane, Amelia): Mockups for new look (Amelia) Preparations for November release, to include (list from Eurie): 1. links to user feedback form 2. updating the AmiGO user help doc 3. links to the AmiGO user help doc 4. cosmetic changes in layout 5. programming changes to improve the speed of the queries Advocacy group (Jane): Training for Royal Society of Chemistry editors, who will use GO and SO terms to mark up RSC journal articles (Jane, Jen) Work on November newsletter Proposal for users meetings (Jane, Eurie) GOhelp list fairly quiet Annotation outreach (Jen): Invitation to speak to group in Copenhagen; they work on Aspergillus nidulans Some progress populating outreach database Conferences/meetings Content meeting on is_a complete BP, Hinxton; see above (all + David Hill) Ontoverse workshop and SAB meeting (Midori; also see email to managers list) Mapping of NAR databases to GO terms (Jane, with MA) Updates to web pages (Amelia) GO.xrf_abbs update (Midori) GO Bibliography now has 1081 entries Appendix 1: Items closed outside GO-Ed this month 1490281 - Harold 1493845 - Tanya 1524750 - content at Hinxton mtg, edits by David Hill 1544114 - Harold 1558940 - Karen C, with outside experts 1568078 - Donghui 1568086 - Donghui 1568088 - Donghui 1568090 - Donghui 1568092 - Donghui 1568094 - Donghui 1569489 - Donghui 1570154 - Donghui 1570155 - Donghui 1570156 - Donghui 1572126 - David Hill 1572131 - David Hill 1574018 - Karen C, input from Midori 1574122 - Karen C, input from Midori 1584010 - Tanya, input from David Hill Appendix 2: input from others on SF items closed this month 1549443 - Doug and other ZFIN curators 1563211 - David Hill 1566035 - Doug, David Fashena, David Hill 1567087 - RefGen curators, esp. Rachael, Karen C 1570756 - RefGen curators, esp. Varsha, Eurie 1571580 - Michelle G 1571702 - Michelle G 1574878 - Karen C 1575164 - Stacia