From camon at ebi.ac.uk  Mon Apr 10 06:10:15 2006
From: camon at ebi.ac.uk (Evelyn Camon)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:10:15 +0100
Subject: Clarrification NIH proposal for chicken genome annotation
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Message-ID: <443A5937.6020705@ebi.ac.uk>

Hi,

I'm bit late chiming in, just back from GO Consortium meeting.
I can confirm what Shane has said. Both the Roslin Institute (via Dave 
Burt) and AgBase contribute Chicken GO annotations directly to
GOA via our online annotation tool and anyone else who wishes to 
contribute in a similar fashion are welcome to contact us(goa at ebi.ac.uk) 
or indeed anyone in ChickGO Consortium.
To use the GOA annotation tool requires training and mentoring to ensure 
all data is produced according to GO Consortium guidelines.

We are working together, plenty to annotate guys :-))

thanks
Evelyn

Shane Burgess wrote:
> Question from: "Gane Ka-Shu Wong" <gksw at u.washington.edu> on Monday, March
> 27, 2006 at 11:21 AM +0000 wrote:
> 
>>competition is always good, and i support the agbase efforts to annotate
>>the chicken genome. however, will there be any efforts to coordinate with
>>the BBSRC project? it would be very confusing to the community if they
>>disagreed.
> 
> 
> 
> Answer.
> 
> Thank you for raising the issue. I had certainly hoped that my email did
> not suggest direct competition.  
> 
> To clarify,however, these two proposals are NOT competitive in any way. 
> They are complimentary. We are following the example of the entire GO
> community, which is extremely collaborative and inclusive. The two
> proposals are working together to eventually achieve the same end for the
> good of the community.
> 
> The chicken GO annotation task in front of us all is enormous and Roslyn,
> GOA and ourselves at AgBase have been communicating for many months now
> about how together we can best get this (perhaps endless) task done in the
> most efficient way possible. These projects will be co-ordinated and we
> have documented how we plan to do this. Roslyn and GOA have provided us
> with letters of support for out NIH proposal just as we, of course, have
> provided a letter of support for the BBSRC proposal. AgBase was also
> involved in helping to put Roslyn and GOA get together on this in the
> first place. 
> 
> Regards
> Shane
> 
> 
> Shane C Burgess BVSc(Dist.), MRCVS., PhD.
> Department of Basic Sciences
> College of Veterinary Medicine
> Mississippi State University
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> MS 39762-6100
> USA
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> Fax:  (+ 1) 662 325 1031
> Email:   burgess at cvm.msstate.edu
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Evelyn Camon
GOA Coordinator
Senior Scientific Curator
European Bioinformatics Institute
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From kchris at genome.Stanford.EDU  Fri Apr 14 16:01:47 2006
From: kchris at genome.Stanford.EDU (Karen Christie)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:01:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GO Annotation Training July 12-14
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0604141558500.25553-100000@fafner.Stanford.EDU>

Hello,

The GO Consortium would like to announce that we will again hold a GO
Annotation Camp at Stanford University this summer. The training portion
of the Camp will be three days long from 9 am Wednesday, July 12th until
5pm on Friday, July 14th. Below there are links to the working schedule,
general information, and the registration page.

Similarly to the 2005 GO Annotation Camp, this will be a practical
workshop focusing on the process of making GO annotations from the
research literature. Much of our time will be spent reading research
articles and using tools to browse the ontologies to determine as a group
the appropriate GO annotations that can be made from a given paper. Note
that this workshop will NOT deal with automated or computational methods
of making GO annotations via sequence similarity comparisons.

Registration is required for organizational purposes, but there is NO
registration fee. In addition, if you register by May 17th, the Stanford
Genetics Department will cover your lodging costs provided you make your
reservation with one of our designated hotels.  If you register later than
May 17th, you are still welcome to attend, but we will not cover your
lodging costs. General information, the working schedule, and the
registration form are available from the links below.

Working Schedule:
	http://www.geneontology.org/meeting/AnnotCamp2006sched.shtml

General Information:
	http://www.geneontology.org/meeting/AnnotCamp2006info.shtml

Registration Form:
	http://www.geneontology.org/meeting/AnnotCamp2006reg.shtml

If you would like to attend the training portion of the camp, please
register as soon as possible to facilitate our planning, and no later than
May 17th if you wish for us to cover your lodging costs. If you will cover
your own lodging costs, you may register until June 23rd. If you have any
questions, please contact me (kchris at genome.stanford.edu).

Regards,

-Karen

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