Clarrification NIH proposal for chicken genome annotation

[Evelyn Camon]

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.
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> College of Veterinary Medicine
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Evelyn Camon
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European Bioinformatics Institute
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