MTB-GOA version 12

A further three missing papers, several newer papers, and lots of process annotations are in this new release, which is the next-to-last before this year's major update. I am using UniPathway to stay on top of pathways and I am more than half through it with process annotations. You can see it is a nice site which depends on electronic annotations, so it is only as good as those.

The "genome map" is released! What? Ah, the ontology annotations were announced. The most informative take is at livemint and -- hold it, it says CSIR to unveil gene map (at www.osdd.net) -- so, no, not much really happened except that we know now that to-be-published annotations can be edited Wikipedia-style later. I'm quite sure, however, that most genes already have some annotation now in the putative official version.

I'll grab the opportunity to publish data about my private annotation effort which is about halfway through. I have looked at 350 papers of which 240 are now annotated, yielding 810 annotations of 350 gene products. Not even ten percent of the genome.

a big sigh

There's a saying by Bismarck: "The 1st generation creates value, the 2nd manages it, the 3rd studies art history, the 4th degenerates." I would like to state a version regarding computer science: "The 1st generation creates algorithms, the 2nd writes and patches app software, the 3rd merely knows how to download and install safely, the 4th blindly believes in computer power." OTOH, there have been people who started at four and made it to position one, all in one person, so don't take the saying as a prediction of the future, although sometimes it looks like it.

Having made my big sigh, I'm now (the?) one who makes GO annotations from the literature on mycobacterial (as in tuberculosis) protein function. I intend to do a complete job, even if I'm not the only one, because I know my level of quality, and comparing two version will give a better one. This will take two three months. After that, let's hope someone has written the software we need...