Core aims of chickGO

[Fiona McCarthy]

1. Core aims of chickGO [recent doc from Dave B and Shane B] 


Hi All,

I am looking at the document that Shane and Dave have put together and it
seems that everyone is in agreement on the key points. Copying from the
text of the documents Dave and Shane sent out, these key points are:

1. Manual annotations of chicken gene products to GO will be accepted from
both AgBase and RI-EBI. Primary GO data for chicken gene products will be
stored at one site AgBase under the leadership of Shane Burgess.

2. Both teams will provide workshops and access to software to help
chicken researchers to do GO annotations, during the course of their
functional genomics work.

3. Gene nomenclature and gene descriptions will be coordinated as part of
the GO annotation process. The nomenclature effort will be developed in
collaboration with HGNC.

4. ChickGO will organise and coordinate international collaborations
through meetings and workshops; to include AgBase, Roslin Institute, EBI,
University of Manchester, INRA, University of Arizona and others.

According to the action plan we have agreed on the aims and overall
objectives. My feeling is that we should try to organise a time and agenda
for a phone conference to specifically address the mechanisms for each of
these core aims. How does the week of 23-25 Jan 2006 suit everybody?

Also, Evelyn made the comment that it would be nice to have an explanation
for "who's who" on the ChickGO list. I agree.  Does anyone have any
suggestions for how to do this?

regards,
Fiona McCarthy

AgBase Biocurator
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