GO-CAM Conference Call - 2019-06-25

Call Information

• See GO's Google calendar for Zoom URL
• email Kimberly if you need access to the GO's Google calendar

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?

• History tracking spreadsheet

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