Introductions

[J Clark]

Hi,

I'm getting information in from people about their involvement with farm 
animal biology and I think others might be interested to see as well, so 
we all know where everybody's coming from. I've pasted the few I have 
below. If other list members could briefly write directly to the list 
and state their interests then that would be great. All this is archived 
so we only have to do it once. The archive is on the GO ftp site 
(ftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go).

Chris Elsik:
1) bovine - annotating gene products (eventually) and using the GO to
annotate ESTs and microarrays.
2) pig - using GO to annotate ESTs and microarrays
3) sheep - using GO to annotate ESTs and microarrays

Alex Evans:
There is a significant group here in UCD, Dublin, that is intersted in
cattle. Particular interests are in reproductive tissues, growth, and the
immune system. We have a lesser interest in similar tissues in sheep.
We also have a programme on the genomics of exercise in horses.

Dave Burt -
  Chicken and all avian genomes,
ARK-genomics www.ARK-genomics.org,
AvianNET www.chicken-genome.org,
Arkdb http://www.thearkdb.org/browser?species=chicken
QTLdb (BBSRC with Andy Law),
Ensembl-chick (BBSRC project with Ewan B, Dave B, Andy Law, Simon Hubbard)

Jennifer Clark
GO Editorial Office
I'm assigned to keep track of discussions with new groups who are 
considering starting annotating to GO. I visit meetings to give talks 
encouraging groups to annotate to GO.  I also help write the Gene 
Ontologies, particularly the developmental processes and plant processes.

Thanks,

Jen