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Ontology Development

Alongside the creation of GO annotations, our curation involves the creation of new GO terms and the revision and improvement of existing GO terms. This ensures that the relevant biology can be captured in GO in as much detail as possible.

Ontology development is achieved both by the creation of individual terms across GO as they are required for curation, and also by the larger-scale revision of a focussed node of the ontology.Ìý

The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø team has been involved in several ontology development projects, as detailed below:

TopicProject start dateDetails
TranscriptionJanuary 2017Ruth is a member of the eCOST funded project and is contributing to the improvements to this part of the ontology
December 2016We are creating GO terms for protein complexes relevant to our curation focus. In addition, we are suggesting corresponding complexes in theÌýÌýso we can attach annotations to the complexes themselves.
December 2016Nancy revised and requested telomere and telomerase-related terms in GO. This followed a result of a collaboration with ProfessorÌý, and was part of the BHF-funded annotation effort of heart disease-related processes.Ìý
Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýApril 2015Paul worked with autophagy experts and curators from other databases to improve the representation of autophagy (and specifically mitophagy) in GO. This was part of annotation of Parkinson's disease-related processes.
October 2014Rebecca revised theÌýER stress response node of GO, to facilitate curation of Parkinson's disease-related processes.
June 2014Rebecca revised the oxidative stress response node of GO, to facilitate curation of Parkinson's disease-related processes.
February 2011Ruth worked on the apoptosis ontology and attended a 1 dayÌýÌýin June 2011Ìýto refine the representation of apoptosis within the Gene Ontology. In May 2013 there was a GO Consortium co-ordinated reannotation of this domain.
January 2010ÌýRuth organised aÌýÌýin November 2011Ìýto develop the ontology in this area. This led to the creation of over 120 new GO terms describing this domain of the ontology
March 2009Ruth worked with GO editors, GO annotators and signaling experts to refine the representation of signaling with GO. This included helping organise a two-dayÌýÌýin February 2011.
January 2009ÌýVarsha organised a 1.5 dayÌýÌýin September 2009 with cardiac development experts, GO editors and GO annotators from several model organism databases, to develop the ontology in this area. This project led to the creation of 285 new GO terms to describe heart development. The new ontology, presented inÌý, describes heart morphogenesis, differentiation of specific cardiac cell types, and the involvement of signaling pathways in heart development. Following on from this successful workshop, Varsha led aÌýÌýto annotate transcription factors involved in heart development.
November 2007Ruth worked with cardiovascular lipoprotein experts to develop GO terms for describing biological characteristics of lipoproteins across the biological process, molecular function and cellular component nodes.

Requests from the BHF-funded project have so far led to the creation of over , the Parkinson's UK-funded project led to the creation of over , and the Alzheimer's Research UK-funded project has created or revised over .


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