[Annotation] Agenda for Curator Discussion April 14th

[Mike Cherry]

The next Curator Discussion teleconference will be April 14th from  
12:30-1:30P EDT.  The dial in information is the same as last time.

US: 866-365-4406
UK: 08004960580
access code: 7237541

For the April 14th call we will discuss the following.  Please think  
about how your procedures.

1. How do projects interact with one another, how much interaction is  
practical, and how can interactions be improved.
2. Standards for announcements and updates to the community.  Methods  
of announcements: web sites, email, wiki.  What do you announce and  
your requirements for those announcements.  For example, do you have  
standards required announces: regular updates, special changes to  
sites, downtime, ...

3. Discuss a paper provided by Andrei Petcherski at WormBase,  
Caltech.  This will allow a discussion of data types and the process  
of abstracting them into a database.  We don't necessarily want a  
discussion of any particular annotation system rather this is to allow  
a discussion of the general process of curation.  A bit on this paper  
from Andrei, "I have marked up the data types we are interested in  
(highlights and sticky notes). I have also attached a snap-shot of  
what actually gets emailed to the curators extracting the data and a  
cumulative summary of ~4000 papers that went through our first-pass  
(the last two pages in the same pdf).  I am not sure if this is the  
best paper to look at for the conference call, but it does have a  
decent number of data types."

You can retrieve the paper from the following URL.

   http://geneontology.org/meeting/curators/Chuang-2007-WB-firstpass.pdf

Thanks to Cindy Krieger and Julie Park of SGD for providing minutes of  
the March 20th Curator Discussion.  You can retrieve the minutes from  
this URL.

   http://geneontology.org/meeting/curators/Chuang-2007-WB-firstpass.pdf

-Mike

P.S.  I thought this might be of interest.  From Genome Technology  
Online, April 7, 2008, "OpenHelix reports that NCBI has cut their  
outreach staff and canceled training seminars, due to funding  
concerns. On their blog, OpenHelix posts a sample notification that  
people have received that says that all outreach programs, including  
NCBI's field guide, mini-courses, structures, and PubChem, have been  
terminated."