[Go] February Outreach report

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi,

Jane and I are compiling the report on user advocacy and outreach for 
February. If you did any work specifically to promote users needs in the 
consortium, to teach users how to use GO, or to encourage or train new 
annotation groups, could you possibly write and let us know?


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Activities taking place in January:

Rachael Huntley gave a tutorial "Introduction to the Gene Ontology and 
GO annotation resources" for the EBI's Hands-on training course 
'Transcriptomics' held at EBI on 19-22nd January 2009.

Emily Dimmer, Rachael Huntley and Michelle McHale trained the first set 
of SIB curators in GO annotation on 28-29th January 2009 in Geneva.

Jim Hu gave a computer demo at the Plant and Animal Genome meeting in 
San Diego. This included using GONUTS to do community GO annotation.

 From Ranjana Kishore: The sea urchin database people are in touch with 
WormBase (they are on the same campus as us, Caltech). Since they now 
have a stable genome, last week their programmer Dong He and I had a 
conversation, and I pointed him to the relevant GO documentation. To 
begin with, they are interested in doing InterPro2GO mappings for their 
proteins. He will be in touch with me as things develop and I can assist 
them when they are ready to submit an annotation file to the GO consortium.

Val Wood gave a talk and workshop on GO Tools for pombe researchers at a 
Wellcome Trust Advanced Course: Genome-Wide Approaches With Fission Yeast.

Ruth Lovering presented a seminar to the Department of Medicine, UCL, 
entitled 'GO for it! Gene Ontology - an essential resource' on Friday 
6th Feb.

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All outreach reports are available at: 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Annotation_Outreach_group_reports

Thanks,

Jennifer