[go] Ontology development - January highlights

[Judith Blake]

Thanks Midori and David for this, as usual, interesting and great 
report.  Lots happening !
I'm also glad to see that many of the MODs are contributing to the 
resolution of SourceForge issues.

Judy

Midori Harris wrote:
> 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