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[Chris Mungall]

Hi Mike

I agree. As a short term fix I imagine it would not be so hard to get  
the symbol onto the refG static summary page. Longer term, we need to  
integrate the refG information with AmiGO, this is one of our top  
priorities at the moment.

On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Mike Cherry wrote:

> The page "http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Docs" might be too  
> general.  Just a thought the perhaps there could be a Standard  
> Definitions page linked from "Docs".  I'm wondering if this page  
> will end up become quick long and that maybe making some subpages  
> might be good to do now.
>
> Nomenclature question, I'm not at all sure about the mammalian  
> rules.  The nice text on CLN3 has "CLN3" in italics in the sentence  
> "Mutations in CLN3 ..." thats talking about the gene.  Then the  
> beginning of the next paragraph CLN3 is not italics, its talking  
> about the protein.  However, the last sentence: "All CLN3  
> annotations ...", also has CLN3 not in italics.  Shouldn't that  
> last CLN3 be in italics?
>
> The discussion and display of orthology is going to be very  
> important.  Budding yeast has a gene called CLN3, the G1 cyclin,  
> however the Sc ortholog of human CLN3 is called YHC3.  A search of  
> AmiGO for CLN3 is not what should be done to find the budding yeast  
> annotations.  The RefGenomeGraph doesn't mention the gene name in  
> the table, the SGDID is listed and links to all the correct YHC3  
> info.   This is an example where a bit more information is needed  
> to help folks not get too confused.  Perhaps listing the gene  
> symbols (what yeast folks call gene names) can be included in the  
> table on these graph pages.  A final thought, now that we are in  
> the genomic age it might be best to list the genus species name as  
> the common name is mentioned.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Petra Fey wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Please have a look at the attached August 07 newsletter. As  
>> always, we appreciate all comments.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Petra (and the newsletter team)
>>
>> <GOnewsletter_Aug07.pdf>
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