[go] offer of human GO annotations

[E Dimmer]

Hi Susan,

Good networking!  :-)
I'll contact Kira and later report back to Jen/GOC to let you know how 
its progressing.

Thanks!
Emily

Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:
> Hi Susan,
>
> Thanks, this is exactly the kind of information we are looking for. We 
> will follow it up.
>
> Jen
>
> Susan Tweedie wrote:
>> This is probably most relevant to Emily but others may like to comment.
>> Also Jen's may like to include this in her 'feedback from conferences'
>> aspect of the outreach report.
>>
>> Kira Anthony from the PathwayInteractionDatabase  -
>> http://pid.nci.nih.gov (a collaboration between th U.S. National Cancer
>> Institute and Nature Publishing Group) talked to several of us at the
>> biocurator meeting and expressed an interest in submitting their GO
>> annotations relating to signalling pathways. The data is basically all
>> human (in some cases they know there is evidence in other species but
>> I'm not sure if they record the annotation details for the other
>> species).
>>
>> One problem with submitting their data is that they use a mix of GO
>> evidence codes and their own codes.
>> e.g. IOS (inferred from other species) i.e. no evidence in human; IAE
>> (inferred from array experiments) chIP on chip, protein arrays, chemical
>> compound arrays; IFC (inferred from functional complementation); RGE
>> (inferred from reporter gene expression).
>>
>> However, it looks like most of these would map onto GO codes.
>>
>> Another point to clarify is whether they track which evidence is
>> associated with which reference - this isn't obvious from the way they
>> present it on the web but I haven't had more than a cursory look.
>> Kira's email is k.anthony at boston.nature.com. I said I would pass on her
>> offer to the consortium and we'd get back to her.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Susan
>>
>


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