[Go] Ontology development - May highlights

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

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

   http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/May2009_ontology_report

Ontology development highlights from May:

   * The first part_of links between the MF and BP ontologies have been 
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 now well under way 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Virus_terms).

   * We've continued work on internal cross-products, i.e. cross-products 
where both the genus and differentiae are GO terms, and still plan to make 
the first ones live fairly soon (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).

   * Work on signal transduction terms is still going on 
(http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Signaling).

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

   * Work on branching organ development is goin on (no single wiki page, 
but relevant to lung development and kidney development, 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Lung_Development and 
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Kidney_Development, among others).

   * 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