Introductions

[Evelyn Camon]

Evelyn Camon:

I coordinate the GO annotation (GOA) group (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/GOA) at 
the EBI. We produce GO annotations to over 98,000 species annotated in 
the UniProtKb/Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL databases. We have 20 curators , 3 
full time GOA and 17 part-time GOA(also working on UniProtKb). The full 
time GOA curators also help to create the InterPro2go and spkw2go 
mappings. GOA is specifically funded for GO curation of the Human 
Proteome but we are also involved in curating other mammalian species. 
We are currently collaborating with Dave Burt(Roslin) and Fiona 
McCarty(AgBase)in Chicken GO annotation.

For groups wishing to get started in GO annotation we can provide 
training and access to our online GO annotation tool.

GOA produces: GOA-UniProt(redundant dataset, all species),and species 
specific files (non-redundant)GOA-Human, GOA-Mouse, GOA-Rat, 
GOA-Chicken,GOA-Arabidopsis, GOA-ZebraFish (and next year GOA-DOG and 
GOA-Cow:-)

The GOA annotators share an office with GO editors. So Jen and I can see 
each other. The EBI is also the home of SWISS-PROT,InterPro, EMBL, 
IntAct, PRIDE, CHEBI, MSD, Ensembl, ASD, ClusTr and ArrayExpress.

My biological background is in bovine immunology, at GOA however I 
curating all types of proteins, species and fields of biology.

cheers
Evelyn

GOA Coordinator
Senior Scientific Curator
European Bioinformatic Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
E-mail: camon at ebi.ac.uk
Tel:01223-494465
Fax:01223-494468


J Clark wrote:
> 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).
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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