[Go] Ontology development - May highlights

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

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

     http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/May2008_report

Ontology development highlights from May:

   * There has been progress on describing links between GO terms and taxon 
IDs, as discussed at the meeting in April 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Implementation_April_2008_onwards).

   * Function-process links are still being gathered for electron transport 
and metabolic pathways. Function-process main page: 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Function-Process_Links.

   * The first F-P links to go live will be 'regulates' links, as announced 
in this month's newsletter 
(http://www.geneontology.org/newsletter/archive/200805.shtml)

   * The overhaul of signal transduction process terms is well under way
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Signaling).

   * Work on transport and transporters has resumed, with new experts 
involved (http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Transporters).

   * We've done a cleanup of old oustanding SourceForge items, with many 
closed, still others assigned, and a few closed as out-of-date.

As noted last month, the function-process work will continue, as will the
signaling overhaul and quality control work connected with the regulation
terms. In June, we'll also reorganize the protease activity terms in MF.

Our plans for implementing cross-products based on Chris' new suggestion 
are unchanged (see 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Cross_Product_Guide and files in 
the go/scratch/xps/ directory), as are plans to improve the metabolism 
branch with respect to structure and consistency with ChEBI.

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.

Ontology Development wiki:
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Ontology_Development

SourceForge Curator Requests tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=36855&atid=440764

Midori & David
on behalf of GO's ontology developers
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