WBConfCall 2014.04.03-Agenda and Minutes

Minutes

Gene Association Files (GAFs)

• Anatomy, life stage, disease association files
• Kevin Howe will be generating these files, in general
• Will be difficult or impossible to abide by GAF rules exactly, but can work it out
• Column 6 needs to be resolved: Reference or WormBase object (WBPaper) [primary source of the association]
• Some anatomy terms are linked to multiple references, causes a problem
• Phenotypes don't always have a reference, causes a problem
• When we can't follow a publication, we reference a WB object
• Sometimes GO annotations do not have a paper, and so use a different reference object, method