Annotation Conf. Call 2020-01-21
Agenda and Minutes
- Present: Chris, David, Dmitry, Edith, Harold, Karen, Kimberly, Laurent-Philippe, Li, Michele, Patrick, Pascale, Penelope, Petra, Rob, Sabrina, Stan, Suzi, Tremayne, Val
Pipeline
- gp2protein, gp2rna, gp_unlocalized files
- plan is to retire these from GOC, but want to double-check if there is any use for these files that would require GOC to keep them
- Announcement sent to go-friends, 2020-01-16
- Summary of ticket:
- the GOC pipeline is not using gp2protein files for any data processing
- gpi files
- produced as complementary file for gpad
- produced to populate annotatable entity ontology for Noctua
- Possible future work
- a gene/gene product identifier mapping file, with clear semantics, would be of use to the broader scientific community
- exact file format, who should produce this file, how should it be distributed might all be topics for discussion
- GO's gpi file format
- Alliance bgi.json
- UniProtKB also produces an idmapping file as part of the Quest for Orthologs work
- MODs may also have id mapping files (e.g. WB ftp)
- form a working group of representatives from the Alliance and other databases/projects to develop a common standard here?
- breakout session at ISB in Bar Harbor?
- GO's gpi file format might be a good place to start
- UniProtKB also produces an idmapping file as part of the Quest for Orthologs work
*ACTION: Chris, Kimberly, Stacia to follow-up offline to see what concrete steps could be taken to move discussion forward on a more broadly used id mapping file
Noctua Form 2.0
- Software updates made to ensure correct environment of all components
- Additional updates:
- Entity identifiers now displayed along with labels (particularly helpful when annotating gene product isoforms)
- Causal relations decision tree (available via Connect on the Noctua form table)
- Available (SOON!) from Noctua landing page and workbenches menu on graph editor (NOW)
- Noctua Manual
- User Guide - Google doc from Berkeley meeting, will be retired
- ACTION: curators should try out the new form, give us feedback; we will continue to update and organize the documentation to try to help with workflow
*ACTION: New software updates on Noctua development site will be rolled out to production; Kimberly will email when new Noctua form is on production.
Annotation Relations
- Goal is to review use of relations across annotations (standard and GO-CAM) and the ontology to ensure consistency wherever possible
- Review retired relations:
- 'has direct input' -> 'has input' for MF
- 'occurs at' -> 'occurs in' for MF
- annotation tools need to updated
*ACTION: Groups that have these relations in their annotation tools, should remove them. *ACTION: Commented on existing ticket in RO tracker to obsolete 'has direct input'.