Managers 06May09

Agenda/chair: Midori
Minutes: Pascale
Present:

Action items from previous calls

All are carried over from March 25

Pascale: Organize conference call on usage of tricky GO terms; include ontology editors and annotators (both ref gen and broader annotation list). -> After Biocurators

Pascale, Chris: Finish and circulate gp2protein file documentation. IN PROGRESS

Jennifer is very close to finishing the implementation of the trigger file for annotation checking, and to being able to strip out the sensu synonyms from the live file. If this can be done in time, she would like to write up the project and submit it as a paper to the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM09), Washington DC, USA, Nov. 1-4, 2009. Getting this published might be very helpful in looking for future funding opportunities. Would there be any objection to submission of this paper? Time is getting a bit tight, so if no objections are lodged at this meeting, she will assume it is okay to proceed.
Amelia has suggested that we get a logo professionally designed for GO. She suggested this website: http://99designs.com/. Basically you put up a brief for the logo and an amount of prize money (between 100 and 600 USD) and people submit designs. After a week you choose one and the winner gets the prize money. [Jane]
Papers: we need to start writing some xps papers - where, how many? Also the new journal DATABASE is asking for papers from the Biocurators conference (deadline May 31st, see - should we submit a paper about 'regulates' (Midori's poster)? [David, Midori, Jane, Chris, Tanya]
F-P links have gone live. We should talk about the plan to continue this and how we will feed annotations back to the refgenome group.