EcoliWiki:Gene Association File

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Overview

EcoliWiki and EcoCyc contribute to the Gene Ontology (GO) by monthly submitting our annotations.

The two sites' annotations are prepared by the EcoliWiki team (mostly [[User:DanielRenfro|Daniel,) and submitted via CVS to the GO Consortium. The figure at right shows the four basic steps to this process:

1. Obtain annotations from EcoCyc (quarterly)
2. Obtain annotations from EcoliWiki (monthly)
3. Merge them and resolve name-conflicts
4. Submit to the GO

Detailed Description

There are actually two files that get submitted each month. The gene association file and the gp2protein file. A detailed description of each can be found in the [GO Consortium's documentation].

See Also

• GO Consortium's specification for the GAF - http://www.geneontology.org/GO.format.annotation.shtml
• gp2protein file notes - http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Gp2protein