[Go] Ontology development - April highlights

[Midori Harris]

Dear GO,

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

   http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Apr2009_ontology_report

Ontology development highlights from April:

   * The big news this month is that OBO-Edit 2.0 has been released, and is 
now used for editing GO. Many thanks to Amina and the working group!

   * The long-planned overhaul of virus-related terms has begun 
(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 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 has resumed 
(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