WormBase 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

The progress on annotation were as follows:

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.