[Go] Ontology development - April highlights

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

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

    http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Apr2008_report

Ontology development highlights from April:

   * We've finished renaming 'sensu' terms (main wiki page: 
http://gocwiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Sensu_Main_Page).

   * Reorganization of electron transport terms has been implemented 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Electron_transport).

   * At the GOC meeting, we reported on pilot projects, one on electron 
transport and the other on glycolysis and the TCA cycle, to document links 
between function terms and process terms. We'll continue to collect these 
links for electron transport and metabolic pathways. Function-process main 
page: http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Function-Process_Links.

   * An overhaul of signal transduction process terms continues 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Signaling).

In May (and beyond), the function-process workwill continue, as will the 
signaling overhaul and quality control work connected with the regulation 
terms. We'll also explore regulation links within the function ontology, 
and between the function and process ontologies.

We also have several new sets of possible cross-products that Chris has 
generated, and which we'll evaluate for implementation (see 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Cross_Product_Guide and files in 
the go/scratch/xps/ directory).

A lot of work is planned for metabolism terms, to fill in missing "rungs" 
along paths, and to make the ontology structure more consistent with ChEBI 
(also looking ahead to GO-ChEBI cross-products).

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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