GO Curator Interest Groups

Introduction

At the GO meeting in Cambridge, Sept. 2002, we decided to divide up work based on areas of interest/expertise. To facilitate this arrangement, we'll set up "interest groups" for any areas within the ontologies that are likely to require extensive additions or revisions, or to have proposed changes crop up frequently. Proposed changes relevant to an interest group should be handled (or at least seen) by that group.

Participation in an interest group is voluntary, and curators can join or leave groups as they please. To help keep this list up to date, please email: Midori Harris to join or leave an existing group, or to set up a new group.

When you send mail to one of the interest groups please address it to go@genome.stanford.edu and put the name of the interest group, followed by a hyphen, in the subject line of the mail. This will ensure that the interest group discussions are archived, and that they are able to be searched or sorted according to the name of the interest group. A mail window with the appropriate subject line will be generated automatically if you click on the heading of the interest group that you wish to address.

Note: These interest groups are organized by topics that roughly correspond to GO terms, usually high-level terms that might appear in GO Slim sets. Organism-specific ("sensu") terms are not listed because it would be redundant with model organism database affiliations, but "sensu" terms should be treated in an analogous manner to interest group topics: the relevant MOD curators should be consulted.

Current Interest Groups and Members:

Autophagy (process)

Rama Balakrishnan (SGD)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Cell cycle (process)

Kara Dolinski (SGD)
Sandra Orchard (EBI)
Chandra Theesfeld (SGD)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Cell growth and/or maintenance (process)

Becky Foulger (FlyBase)

Conjugation (process)

Kara Dolinski (SGD)
Michelle Gwinn (TIGR)
Chandra Theesfeld (SGD)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Cytoskeleton and cell motility

Anything having to do with the cytoskeleton (component) and processes involving it, including cell motility and intracellular movement

Rex Chisholm (DictyBase)
David Hill (MGI)

Developmental biology (process)

Anything having to do with development, especially the core of "generic" developmental processes.

Tanya Berardini (TAIR)
Rex Chisholm (DictyBase)
Jennifer Clark (EBI GO)
Petra Fey (DictyBase)
Becky Foulger (FlyBase)
David Hill (MGI)
Pankaj Jaiswal (Gramene)

DNA repair (process)

Eurie Hong (SGD)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Enzymes (function)

Any enzymatic activity or associated information, such as EC cross-references, etc.

Matthew Berriman (Sanger) Kirill Degtyarenko (EBI)

Fungal & microbial cell types & structures [OBO]

Interest group for the development of an ontology for microbial (fungal and bacterial) cell types and multicellular structures, akin to anatomical terms for bigger eukaryotes; also see the Microbial Structure Ontology page.

Karen Christie (SGD)
Maria Costanzo (SGD)
Michelle Gwinn (TIGR)
Eurie Hong (SGD)
Chandra Theesfeld (SGD)
Val Wood (Sanger)

GPCRs (function)

Anything having to do with G-protein coupled receptors.

David Hill (MGI)
Jodi Hirschman (SGD)

Hemopoeisis (process)

Evelyn Camon (EBI GOA)
David Hill (MGI)
David States (University of Michigan School of Medicine

Immunology

Includes immune response (process) and defense/immunity protein activity (function)

Evelyn Camon (EBI GOA)
Alexander Diehl (MGI)
Nikolai Petrovsky (University of Canberra)

Meiosis (process)

Eurie Hong (SGD)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Metabolism

Matthew Berriman (Sanger) Lukas Mueller (Cornell University)

Mitochondrion (component)

Maria Costanzo (SGD)
Pankaj Jaiswal (Gramene)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Pathogen

Anything involving pathogens, including viruses, from any of the ontologies.

Matthew Berriman (Sanger)
Michelle Gwinn (TIGR)

Physiology (process)

Tanya Berardini (TAIR)
Norberto de la Cruz (RGD)
Becky Foulger (FlyBase)
David Hill (MGI)

Plants

Any aspect of plant biology that fits into any of the ontologies.

Tanya Berardini (TAIR)
Jennifer Clark (EBI GO)
Pankaj Jaiswal (Gramene)
Susan McCouch (Gramene)
Suparna Mundodi (TAIR)
Junjian Ni (Gramene)
Sue Rhee (TAIR)
Lincoln Stein (Gramene)
Leszek Vincent (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Doreen Ware (Gramene)
Noel Yap (Gramene)

Protein folding (process)

Rama Balakrishnan (SGD)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Protein kinases (function)

Rama Balakrishnan (SGD)
Becky Foulger (FlyBase)
Sue Rhee (TAIR)

Protein modification (process)

Co- or post-translational modifications of proteins; does not include folding.

Rama Balakrishnan (SGD)
Kirill Degtyarenko (EBI)
Harold Drabkin (MGI)
John Garavelli (EBI) - metal cluster bindi)
Sandra Orchard (EBI)
Val Wood (Sanger)

Protein synthesis (process)

Including ribosomes, translation, tRNAs, initiation, elongation, termination, suppression.

Harold Drabkin (MGI)

RNA metabolism (process)

Including splicing, modification, editing, small RNAs, etc. (does not include transcription).

Karen Christie (SGD)
Harold Drabkin (MGI)

Signal transduction

Anything related to the process of signal transduction or relevant functions, such as signal transducer activity and its children; also see the GPCR interest group above.

Evelyn Camon (EBI GOA) - signal transducer activity
Becky Foulger (FlyBase)
Jodi Hirschman (SGD)
Sandra Orchard (EBI)

Stress response

'Response to stress' and any of its children.

Jennifer Fostel (NIH/NIEHS)
Michelle Gwinn (TIGR)
Pankaj Jaiswal (Gramene)
Suparna Mundodi (TAIR)

Transcription (process)

Karen Christie (SGD)
Harold Drabkin (MGI) - eukaryotic RNA Pol II
Val Wood (Sanger)

Transport

Includes transport (process) and transporter activity (function)

Dianna Fisk (SGD)
Michelle Gwinn (TIGR)
Val Wood (Sanger)