[Gmod-gene-page] List your common gene page contents

[Don G. <gil...@bi...>]

Dear gene page readers,

This last May I wrote:
> As a target goal, a proposal for unified gene pages could be ready for
> GMOD meeting in Fall 2004.

We missed this goal, but people at this week's GMOD meeting reiterated
a desire to work together for a common gene summary.

Contest of the week:
  List the  biological contents, and their overall
  categories, common to model organism gene pages.  

Please reply to this group with your list by 15 October.

Rules:
  1. Focus on biology now, leave computing to later.  The major need 
  is to distill biological knowledge about genes to say what
  MODs should be representing in a common way.

  2. Look over example MOD gene pages.  The approach suggested of
  removing HTML to look at content, labels and organization struck a chord
  in meeting discussion. 

  3. Your contents and organization need not be common to all MOD pages, but
  should reflect a "minimal" set of important gene attributes that most
  organisms share, and most bioscientists want as reference.
  
I've broken rule 1 by spending some time over the summer computing on
this.   You can find example gene pages, along with a Gene
Page Scraper that will turn existing MOD gene pages into some semblence
of common structure, here
  http://eugenes.org/all/gene-report-examples/

Here a starter list of common gene attributes 
 * Names, symbols/IDs, synonyms
 * Map locations
 * Sequences
 * Reagents
 * Gene ontology
 * Similar Genes
 * Database cross-refs, External links
 * Alleles, Transcripts
 * Proteins, Structure and Domains
 * Expression and Mutant Phenotypes
 * Gene Interactions
 * Literature references
 * Summary Text

GMOD Gene Page Working Group
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This group will discuss and propose a common gene page that model
organism/genome database members can agree to produce in some form. All
interested parties can contribute.


-- Don
-- d.gilbert--bioinformatics--indiana-u--bloomington-in-47405
-- gil...@in...--http://marmot.bio.indiana.edu/