[go] offer of human GO annotations

[Susan Tweedie]

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