[go] AmiGO beta announcement

[Judith Blake]

I agree with Val and David.
We need to facilitate the ability for people to have immediately at hand 
the version of GO data they are using.  I currently criticize the lack 
of such data on paper reviews.

judy

Valerie Wood wrote:
> I agree with David,  most analysis which use GO  are not reproducible because details about GO data (annotations and ontology) and software  used are ommitted.
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> I think we should provide this info at the top of the results output. Perhaps the load date for now, until we have proper versioning?
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> Val
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> David Hill <dph at informatics.jax.org> wrote: 
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>> Hi Amelia,
>>
>> I think the important thing I am trying to get at is that if someone 
>> writes a paper using one of the tools we provide, we need to have a way 
>> of tracking how they did their analysis so the 'experiment' can be 
>> repeated if necessary. I have been frustrated in the past trying to 
>> figure out how people got results they did when I couldn't repeat the 
>> analysis.
>>
>> David
>>
>> Amelia Ireland wrote:
>>     
>>> Back in Gotham City, David Hill wrote:
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>>>> Seth (and others who contributed),
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>>>>         
>>> Seth did the term enrichment and mapper, I worked on improving the search
>>> and the core AmiGO functionality, and the Web Presence Working Group
>>> provided key feedback to help guide things in the right direction! Ben and
>>> Chris were also instrumental in getting things working behind the scenes
>>> at Stanford and in the database respectively.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> It should provide which set of annotations it is using and which 
>>>> version of the GO it is using, maybe right at the top of the results.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> For general AmiGO stuff, the DB version is at the bottom of the page, as
>>> Ben noted. I don't know whether including the version of the GO being used
>>> would be TMI [too much information] for the average user, plus I'm not
>>> sure whether that info is actually in the database at the moment - it
>>> shows the load date, but not the version number of the GO file. If people
>>> feel this is something that would be useful to have, a simple page with
>>> that data (and any other useful metadata) could be created.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Amelia.
>>>
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