1. PAMGO outreach Annotation exercises
July 14-15, 2008 (followed by Oomycete workshop)
29 attendees
Topics included
structural annotation
functional annotation
the Gene Ontology
PAMGO
Annotation exercises
Michelle demo’ed Manatee and sequence-based annotations
we asked them to read 3 papers - 1 easy, 2 harder
after the first day we asked them to try to do GO annotation of the 3 papers
on the second day we engaged in group discussion/annotation of the 3 papers to GO
they did very well

2. Picture

3. Followed by a “Flash and Dash” at the APS Meeting in Minnesota
Candace’s China Tour
“Comparative genomics of plant pathogens: How new Gene Ontology (GO) terms facilitate the study of microbe-host interactions”
Presented at 3 Chinese universities during summer 2008
Nanjing Agricultural University
Hangzhou University
Shang Jiaotong University
Followed by a “Flash and Dash” at the APS Meeting in Minnesota
“Using the universal language of Gene Ontology (GO) to annotate gene products involved in the interactions between microbes and their hosts”
Centennial meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, Minneapolis, MN, July, 2008

4. Picture from China?

5. IGS outreach Michelle’s 2-day workshops
you’ve heard me talk about these many times
2008 dates: May, September, and November
They’re FREE (tell your friends and neighbors)
Educating the virulence community about GO
Trying to get the BRCs to use GO evidence codes
This resulted in desire for IGC sub-codes
BRCs are expected to send data to BRC Central with (mostly) GO codes by the end of October

6. Snippet from BRC II RFA in a section on genome annotation…
in a section on interoperability…