[go] Ontology development - August highlights

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

The most recent monthly report on ontology content, for July 2007, is now 
available at:

   http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Aug2007_ontology_report

Some highlights from August:

  * Work to follow up on the content meeting on muscle development is in 
progress (http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Muscle_Development).

  * Work following the meeting on cardiovascular physiology is done
(http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Cardiovascular_physiology/development).

  * Work on GO-Cell cross-products has resumed 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/XP:Meetings#2007.2F07.2F26_:_GO-CL_XPs.2C_next_steps).

  * We've made a lot of progress on renaming 'sensu' terms and improving 
their definitions 
(http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Sensu_Main_Page).

In September, we will focus on regulation, with the aim of adding 
cross-products and using the long-awaited 'regulates' relationship; see 
http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Regulation_Main_Page.

Also, the GO managers are preparing an update for the January 2008 NAR 
Database Issue. A draft manuscript will go to the GO list shortly.

As usual, details of small- and medium-scale changes are available in the 
SourceForge Curator Requests tracker. Please contact us if you want to help out 
with ontology work in a particular area, or if you have any comments or 
questions about what's going on.

Midori & David
on behalf of GO's ontology developers