GO Annotation Camp: Working Schedule

July 12-14, Tresidder Memorial Union (Oak Lounge), Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Part 2: Training for Manual Curation of Research Literature - July 12-14, 2006
(all welcome)

Basic Daily Schedule

The Annotation camp will be held at the Tresidder Memorial Union (Oak Lounge), Stanford University, CA. We'll will be starting at 9AM each morning and planning to break for the day at about 5PM. Here is the basic schedule for each day with a short description of each type of activity.

9:00 Introductions
A time to introduce yourself and your project to the group. For example you might talk about the special biology of your organism, particular biological phenomenon that make GO annotation challenging, the project and its staff where you work, etc. The idea is to provide more than just an introduction - rather give you time to share more about yourself, your project or model system. Perhaps more important than the specific details of annotation that you may learn here, are the contacts with other people creating and making GO, which will help you maintain the use of GO in your project and will help GO maintain consistent usage across many projects. These will be spread across the four days of the camp, but everyone will get a chance.
9:30 Presentations
There will be a few presentations on specific topics, such as how the Gene Ontologies are maintained and changed, the use of evidence codes, and submission of gene_association files. These talks are intended to stimulate discussion and questions are encouraged. The specifics on the presentations for each day are below.
10:30 Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 Working Session
These are times to work in groups on specific research papers. We will have some large group working sessions where an experienced GO annotator presents a paper and the GO annotations that can be made on the basis of work described in the paper. We will also have a number of small working group sessions of three to five people. Each small group will contain at least one experienced GO annotator and the group will work through making GO annotations from the paper. These large and small group sessions are intended to provide a forum for questions about the practical details of annotation: which GO terms to use? what evidence codes to use?, can any annotation be made from this paper?
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Working Session
15:00 Tea/Coffee Break
15:30 Group Discussion
These are times when the whole group comes back together and discusses issues and questions that arose in the small groups during the Working Sessions.
17:00 End of the Day's Session

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Specific Presentations for Each Day

Wednesday, July 12

9:30

Goals of the workshop

GO Annotation Panel*

  • Intro to GO and the ontologies
  • Intro to evidence codes
  • How and where to browse the ontologies

11:00

GO Annotation Panel*

  • Introduction to annotating
  • What constitutes an annotation
  • What level of GO term is appropriate
Thursday, July 13

9:30

GO Editorial Office

  • Changing the ontologies
  • Activities of the GO Editorial Office
  • SourceForge items
Friday, July 14

9:30

GO Annotation Panel*

  • Generating a gene_association file
  • Maintaining and updating
  • OBO and other ontologies

* The GO Annotation Panels will be composed of several experienced members of GO Consortium groups.

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