GO Users Meeting

October 14, 2004

Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

8:30 – 9:30 Continental Breakfast / Registration

Tools for the Gene Ontology

9:30 – 9:50 Overview of GO

9:50 – 10:10 Ontological visualization of protein-protein interactions (Harold Drabkin, MGI)

10:10 – 10:30 GO Slim Mapper Tool at SGD (Rama Balakrishnan, SGD)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:05 Tools for assessing GO annotation consistency (Mary Dolan, MGI)

11:05 – 11:25 Gene Ontology and the development of tools for improved data search, navigation, mining and visualization at Rat Genome Database (Victoria Petri, RGD)

11:25 – 12:10 Panel: Gene Ontology Tools (Moderator: Suzanna Lewis, FlyBase)

12:10 – 1:30 Lunch

Reports on the Gene Ontology

1:30 – 1:50 GO Chicken: From MudPIT to Swamp (Fiona McCarthy, Chicken Genome Project)

1:50 – 2:10 The Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) Database: sharing knowledge in UniProt with Gene Ontology (Emily Dimmer, EBI)

2:10 – 2:30 Interactive functional analysis from the biomedical literature (Bruce Schatz, Beespace)

2:30 – 2:50 Coffee Break

2:50 – 3:10 Using cross-products to represent Dictyostelium development (Pascale Gaudet, dictyBase)

3:10 – 3:30 Creating compound annotations to represent biological detail in MGI (David Hill, MGI)

3:30 – 4:15 Panel: Achieving Consistency of Annotation (Moderator: Judith Blake, MGI)

For questions or additional information, please contact dictyBase at dictybase@northwestern.edu