Manager 15June11

Agenda

Annotation Outreach:

- communication with the medicago hapmap project on their GO annotations (Emily and David)

GOC Annotation items:

• Improving the GO Help Rota. PIs to volunteer GO contributors?

• With the focused annotation projects funded by the British Heart Foundation and Kidney Research UK, reaching their last year and the curation groups looking to extend their funding from these charities, we would like to publicly demonstrate how these efforts have supported the GOC editors in developing the GO ontology in certain areas - such as heart or kidney development. One idea has been to use term dbxrefs that state a particular curators involvement in developing a term, to include the charity's icon in the term information page in QuickGO. Here is a possible display: . We realize that the dbxrefs were not designed necessarily for this purpose however.

• Species ownership of GOC files, from Mike's suggestion could the GOC start to re-evaluate those dormant species owners?

• Aggregator for social sites- http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/GO_Community_Site

• Developing the PomBase tool into a GOC hosted community annotation tool.

• ECO and GO - working group

Software:

• TermGenie Stability (Jane)