GO-CAM Conference Call - 2019-06-25
Call Information
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Agenda
Annotation History Tracking
- Review how groups track and use annotation history
- Need use-cases to make sure we are capturing what people really need in Noctua
- Important for future Noctua use
- Important for the MOD imports
- Need to know:
- Type of information tracked
- Is every change recorded over time or only a subset of changes?
- How the information is accessed/viewed
- In the curation tool?
- Via database queries?
- Via reports or notifications, e.g. email?
- When the information is used in the curation process
- To assign curators for annotation review?
- To record history of annotation practice?
- To help prepare progress reports?
- To track curator work?
- Type of information tracked
Minutes
- On call: Chris, David, Giulia, Harold, Helen, Judy, Karen, Kimberly, Laurent-Philippe, Li, Marie-Claire, Midori, Monika, Pascale, Rob, Sabrina, Seth, Shur-Jen, Stacia, Suzi A, Tanya
Annotation History Tracking
- The following groups presented on how their annotation tool captures history and what they use it for:
- dictyBase
- FlyBase
- MGI
- PomBase
- RGD
- SGD
- TAIR (spreadsheet only)
- WB
- Zfin
- The specifics for each group are captured in the spreadsheet, but generally:
- Most groups track some degree of history, even if it is just the first and last curator and date to touch an annotation
- Most groups seem to use annotation history in some way to keep track of curator work/effort
- Protein2GO has the most granular annotation tracking and query system
- In addition to tracking all annotation changes through time, many groups have a way to leave comments on annotations or papers
- Comment are largely for internal use, not for other GO consumers
- Comments may include annotation justification, curation project info, types of experiments, e.g. HTP, notes about gene models
- Some structure to comments may be helpful, at least wrt classifying comment type
- Annotation history information is used by some groups to generate reports on what annotations have been created, changed, deleted