Sept2005 GO Ed report
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GO Editorial Office Report - September 2005
This has been an exciting month! Jane and Phil got married on Sept. 15th, and are somewhere in Peru or the Galapagos on their honeymoon. Hope you all saw the picture she sent! Coming in a distant second on the news front, the GO Users Meeting at MGED8 was quite successful. We had about 40 people for the first sesson, of whom about 30+ came back for the second session. There were a fairly large number (30-40) who apparently registered but did not show up, possibly because the GO meeting was held concurrently with some of the other MGED satellite sessions (and free registration may have made for less of a sense of commitment). Neverthless, the turnout was good, and we had lots of active participation on the part of the users. Connecting a GO Users meeting with another, fairly large, conference looks like a very promising route -- we should do it again. I've had a few hints that the microarray community would be happy to have us run a GO Users meeting at the next MGED meeting (Seattle, Sept. 2006, if I recall correctly). We may also want to scope out other meetings that would reach different communities (e.g. PAG, model organism meetings, etc.). Finally, we and many other Consortium members assembled an update article for NAR, which has been accepted for the January 2006 Database issue. (Midori coordinated, including all the administrivia) SourceForge items (a bit slow, as a result of all the other things going on) Items opened 81 Closed by editorial office 67 (note: 2 SF items closed outside GO-Ed. this month) Items in progress, assigned to editorial office 61 See monthly report in CVS for ontology statistics. Content topics in progress: Development (Jen) metamorphosis muscle development histogenesis and other '-genesis' terms Transporters (Jen has contacted some experts) Integration Content topics resolved: term/structure/definition standardization, mainly for 'localization' and 'perception/response to' (Amelia) small things for SourceForge entries other activities Conferences/meetings Users meeting - great success Planning for content meeting (Nov 15-16, 2005, TIGR) proposal for interactions between organisms, involving both content and annotations (Jane & Amelia) ARK-genomics meeting, Edinburgh (Jen) - see Annotation outreach Annotation outreach ongoing updates to database Jen's summary of outreach at ARK-genomics meeting: a) New outreach poster b) Report to go-top submitted c) Mediation between the European folks who want to annotate and the two farm animal databases that we know of in the US. It's going well but taking some time and a lot of diplomacy. d) Exploring other leads from the meeting. Publications NAR manuscript accepted! Even the niggly administrative details are almost done (Midori) OBO-Edit beta testing (versions 1.000 beta98, beta10, beta11) Documentation new documentation for 'perception' processes (Amelia) redundancy documentation for annotation guide (Jen) mips2go mapping update still in progress (Jane) IMG terms to GO mapping in progress (Jane); meeting with Victor (plus MA and SL) took place as planned; will have to check with Jane as to what's next Another quiet month on the on mailing list; a few queries addressed (Midori) GO Bibliography now has 621 entries