[Annotation] Annotating Viral Proteins

[vanauken at caltech.edu]

Dear Jason,

Thanks for writing to the GO.

I am forwarding your email on to the GO annotation mailing list, as there
are a number of people in GO who work on annotating host-pathogen
interactions and they likely can give you good advice on annotating viral
proteins.

If you are interested, information about subscribing to this list is
available here:

http://geneontology.org/GO.mailing.lists.shtml?all


Best,
--Kimberly Van Auken
Database Curator, WormBase

www.wormbase.org
www.geneontology.org



> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:54:59 -0800 (PST)
> To: gohelp at genome.stanford.edu
> Subject: GO Help query (from Jason Pokorny)
> From: jpokorny at mcw.edu
>
> contactName: Jason Pokorny
> contactEmail: jpokorny at mcw.edu
> contactText: I have a viral protein (Vaccinia Virus H3) that has been
> shown to be antigentic to the host during infection.  I want to assign
> this protein to a biological process, but I can't determine the best term.
>  I though that "activation of immune response GO:0002253" may be
> appropriate.  However, I feel this term was intended for cellular proteins
> where the cell is the host of the infection and not for the proteins in
> the infectious agent.  Any advice?  Thanks.
>
>