[go] Ontology development - January highlights

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

The most recent monthly report on ontology content, for January 2008, is 
now available at:

   http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Jan2008_ontology_report

Ontology development highlights from January:

  * The biggest news is that we are ready to implement the 'regulates' 
relationship. David and Tanya have made numerous improvements in the 
"live" GO file to add missing relationships, correct errors, and move 
regulation terms to more specific parents, all using the existing is_a and 
part_of relationship types. They have also sent an email announcing the 
date -- March 25, 2008 -- when GO will deploy the 'regulates' 
relationship. As always, much more information is available on the wiki 
(http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Regulation_Main_Page).

  * Changes stemming from the revamp of 'sensu' terms have been committed; 
only a few things remain to finish off (main wiki page: 
http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Sensu_Main_Page; outstanding 
items: http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Meeting_Notes_3).

  * Reorganization of electron transport terms continues.

  * Work on transport and transporters has resumed 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php?title=Transporters).

In February, ontology development work will include documentation to 
accompany the 'regulates' relationship and other aspects of regulation 
terms. We will also start work on links between function and process 
ontologies, with a pilot project looking at one or a few biochemical 
pathways that are well curated in Reactome. Cross-products with the Cell 
ontology are ready for manual review, and will get attention when the 
regulation work is secure.

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