[Go] Ontology development - June highlights

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

The most recent monthly report on ontology content, for June 2009, is now 
available at:

   http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Jun2009_ontology_report

Ontology development highlights from June:

   * We have established a plan to make the first internal cross-products 
(i.e., cross-products where both the genus and differentiae are GO terms) 
live. For the new plan, see 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/CJM_EBI_Visit_June_2009#Status_overview_and_release_plan; 
for background see see 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Category:Cross_Products and 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Editors_cross-product_implementation_plan, 
plus individual pages in the Cross_Products category.

   * We also have a plan in place to test using the has_part relation in 
the CC ontology soon, and in the BP ontology a bit later (see 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/CJM_EBI_Visit_June_2009#has_part).

   * More part_of links between the MF and BP ontologies are being added to 
the editors' and extended GO files (gene_ontology_write.obo and 
gene_ontology_ext.obo respectively). See 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Function-Process_Links for 
background.

   * The overhaul of virus-related terms is going well, and a mailing list 
has been created (http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Virus_terms).

   * Work on signal transduction terms is still going on, and a content 
meeting date has been set 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Signaling).

   * Work on taxon triggers continues, with an improved workflow 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Taxon-GO_Implementation_April_2009_onwards).

   * Ontology quality control work continues as reported previously 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Ontology_Quality_Control).

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