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SUMMARY:Using biological ontologies in databases: where do GO terms come f
 rom? - Susan Tweedie\,  Department of Genetics
DTSTART:20080229T140000Z
DTEND:20080229T150000Z
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CONTACT:Dr N Karp
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Susan Tweedie the FlyBase GO curator from th
 e Department of Genetics.\n\nOntologies such as the gene ontology (GO) and
  sequence ontology (SO) are now widely used to annotate biological feature
 s. In this presentation I'll give a brief introduction to biological ontol
 ogies and a more detailed description of how databases\, such as FlyBase\,
  use GO terms to annotate genes. GO annotation is more than a simple label
  to describe function/location\; I'll describe how an understanding of add
 itional components such as evidence codes and qualifiers is important for 
 users to analyse GO data effectively. Finally\, I'll describe the role of 
 the GO consortium in developing new GO terms\, distributing annotation set
 s\nand setting annotation standards across different databases.\n\n
LOCATION:Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre
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