WormBase December 2012

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WormBase Summary, December 2012

Overview

WormBase has two main tasks. One is to work on Aim 4 (Common Annotation Framework), which is described under Software Group. The second is annotation. Most of our efforts over the past year were directed towards software development; remaining efforts were focused on annotation.

Staff:

WormBase

  • Paul Sternberg, PI
  • Juancarlos Chan, software developer
  • Ranjana Kishore, curator
  • Kimberly Van Auken, curator

Textpresso

  • Hans Michael Mueller, PI
  • James Done, software developer
  • Yuling Li, software developer


Annotation Progress

WormBase GO Annotation Statistics as of December 2012

Table 1: Number of Genes Annotated

Type of Annotation Genes Annotated, Dec 2012 % Change from Dec 2011 Number of Unique GO Terms % Change from 2010 Total Number of GO Terms % Change from Dec 2010
Manual Annotation 2,601 +9.93 2,167 +17.8 12,239 +16.9
Phenotype2GO Mappings 6229 -1.3 115 +1.8 42,986 +1.5
IEA/Electronic 13,597 +5.0 1,548 +4.9 55,091 -6.7
Total 16,269 +3.0 3,262 +11.1 106,604 -1.2



Wormbase increased annotation to 17,287 gene products annotated. There are a total of 112,123 gen product-GO associations of which 62,866 are non-IEA.

Kimberely Van Auken is developing GO-CAT.

Ranjana Kishore particpated in the PAINT training workshop in December 2012.

Ranjana Kishore is working on evaluation of website usability.

Caltech hosted the GOC meeting in October 2012.

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