[GMOD-devel] GAFs, GPADs, LEGO and GMOD

[Chris M. <cjm...@lb...>]

Dear GMODders,

Following on from a recent discussion on gmod-schema involving Eric and 
Siddhartha, I thought this would be a good opportunity to clarify some 
differences between some existing GO association formats, and to give 
you a heads-up about a new more expressive way of doing GO annotation 
you'll be seeing soon.

I posted some details here:
http://geneontology.org/article/gaf-gpad-and-lego

In particular, I wanted to draw your attention to the more expressive 
form of LEGO annotations. The best way to grok this is by having a look 
at some existing annotations and documentation here: 
http://noctua.berkeleybop.org/

Although I think it's too early to start thinking about integrating this 
into the GMOD stack, we can still have a conversation about how this 
might work. For example, WormBase are exploring the addition of a Noctua 
widget into their pages. What we learn from this could feed into generic 
GMOD tools like Tripal - it would be great to see LEGO diagrams in 
there.

I'd be happy to answer any questions over on the GMOD lists. Also, if 
any of you are at ISB/Biocuration then there will be many GO experts 
there, as well as the Noctua developer, Seth. Paul Thomas will be giving 
a talk about the modeling paradigm. Feel free to ask us questions!

Cheers,
Chris