Outreach March 2009 Report

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Peach Genome

Bryon Sosinski (sosinski at ncsu.edu) wrote to say that he is coordinating the sequencing of the peach genome, and is writing a USDA-SCRI proposal to employ GO for the initial annotation of the sequence. He also wishes to offer workshops to the community on how to do the higher level annotations in their respective regions of interest. He has been put in contact with Tanya Berardini at TAIR and Fiona McCarthy as AgBase to follow this up.

EBI

Jennifer Deegan taught general GO at a Master's students outreach day at the EBI.

Fission Yeast Community curation

Valerie Wood ran a community curation pilot project for fission yeast, by sending forms to researchers to complete for a recent publication. The initial trial of 20 publications had a 95% response rate demonstrating that the fission yeast community is willing to participate actively in the curation process. See the pilot summary at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/S_pombe/community_curation.shtml. Eight SF items were also raised for new biology, or ontology issues https://sourceforge.net/search/?group_artifact_id=440764&type_of_search=artifact&group_id=36855&words=%22community+curation%22

The pilot will be extended to 50 laboratories over the next month. We are hoping to get funding to develop a simple community curation interface as part of the fission yeast grant proposal believe that this initiative presents a significant cost-effective opportunity to enhance the efforts of core curation staff at low cost,

Prokaryotic groups

Michelle Gwinn-Giglio gave a GO workshop for 20 people at the University of Maryland.