Working Group:Sequence Features

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Topics

  • Display of Sequence Features on the website
    • And Transcription factors and Gene_product binds.
    • in the expression section on the gene page highlight the objects that are Sequence feature related. Add in the table a type called cys-regulatory-element?
    • add a sequence feature table in sequence widget to display all features related to the gene
    • in cytoscape display, sequence feature as an entity node
  • Stream out working flow
    • How can we automatically identify Sequence Feature papers.
    • How do papers come in now? SVM? Textpresso string matches?
  • Improving data flow
    • How can we make the data immediately available to all curators?
      • Add Paper and Public_name fields to the Features in the Nameserver?
      • geneace is available for download updated every day - a copy is taken by Caltech.
        • still need WBsf object details in order to relate/curate regulation/expression/construct objects


  • Sample papers curation
    • Prepare a paper list from each person
  • assign meaningful names to the public_name field, e.g. 'distal enhancer 1' instead of 'DE1'
    • gw3 - I disagree with this. We should use the name that is used to describe the region in the paper, rather than making up our own names. I have had to go back and re-annotate regions after Xiaodong found problems with my stuff several months after I had originally done it and I really needed to be able to unambiguously identify which region the paper was talking about by using the Public_name field and matching this up to the name of the region in the paper. Users may well need to do this as well if they are reading the paper and looking at the Features marking up the regions.
    • dr - ok sounds good to me Gary

Practical Issues

  • Gary and I are staying at the Ramada - 800 Morrissey Boulevard, Freeport St, Boston, MA 02122 US
  • We arrive in Boston on Saturday evening and fly home on Wednesday night.
  • What time shall we meet on Monday morning and where do we go?
    • I (Xiaodong) can pick up you guys at Harvard square T station (red-line, info center on the square) at say 9:30 am. We can walk to my office.
  • Can you confirm that we have office space with internet access? I will bring my Macbook. Hopefully I can tunnel into my Sanger working space.
    • Enough office space for sure. Internet access through Harvard guest. They won't allow you to access other ways.
  • Thanks Xiaodong, I'm bringing my chromebook - Gary

Pre-Jamboree prep

  • Suggestions for work
    • Curate some (5? 10?) papers from our lists and collate data as follows
      • How long did each paper take to curate
      • How many new objects did you add to WormBase
      • Where in the paper was the information (e.g. supplementary data, figure legends, within text)
      • Did you need to contact the author for more information
      • Did you come across data for other curators
        • gw3 - I don't know in detail what data other curators require. It would be useful to know this so I can summarise data for others.

The Jamboree 15-17th Sept 2014

  • Suggestions for work
    • Discuss result from above
    • Work through some papers which have already been curated and have different data types (e.g. promoter and gene regulation) to identify best curation practices.
    • browsing capabilities through WormMine?
    • Should we put the list of papers in the Caltech curation status form


Matters Arising

  • things noted - not necessarily to do with the topic in hand
    • There are many duplicates of Interaction objects in geneace, with or without two leading digits. Sometimes there is only the shorter form.
    • The Features WBsf919641 and WBsf919607 are at the same position. Both are DAF-3 binding sites. WBsf919641 has Method "binding_site", WBsf919607 has Method "TF_binding_site" which I think is more correct as DAF-3 is a TF. WBsf919641 used the paper WBPaper00004526, WBsf919607 used the paper WBPaper00003384. WBsf919641 is associated with WBGene00202278, WBsf919607 is associated with WBGene00003514 (myo-2). The paper WBPaper00004526 appears to about a PEB-1 binding site, not a DAF-3 site. I made the Feature WBsf919609 for the PEB-1 site based on WBPaper00004526 in the last round of curation. Something not right here???
    • The Features WBsf019227 and WBsf038813 and in the same position, but opposite strands. They both are for a LAG-1 binding site associated with gene lin-11. One from paper: WBPaper00005357, other from WBPaper00032298. WBsf019227 needs to be retired and merged into WBsf038813.
    • WBsf038819 has a Method of 'regulatory_region', but the Public_name and Description describes it as an Enhancer. Which is it?
    • WBsf919669 is an Enhancer, but it has a tag for a Transcription_factor WBTranscriptionFactor000101. It is far too large to be a binding site for a transcription fact. I think this tag should be removed.
    • 393 out of the 500 TF_binding_site Features have an incorrect SO_term tag. It should be set to: SO:0000235
    • 10 Features with Method = "TF_binding_site" are lacking a Transcription_factor tag.
  • how many 'Method's for feature? enhancer, regulatory_region, TF_biding_site, promoter…?
    • how to define these methods?
    • when display on JBrowse/GBrowse, do we want to display WBsfxxxxx or methods?
  • Gary does a quick literature search to see what other work has been done in the sites described.
    • along this line, do we wanna add WBPaper00002925 to WBsf from WBPaper00002011? mean, associate features with two paper, both mentioned these features?
      • The Feature objects are used to describe 'real', functional regions of the genome in as much detail as possible. Each paper that provides evidence for that region being 'real' should be added as evidence for the Feature. The Primary object we are trying to describe here is the region of the genome, not the papers. (I may have missed the point you were making - Gary).


Duplicated Features The following are a set of duplicated regulatory Features. I (Gary) am probably the main culprit in not checking to see if there is a pre-existing Feature. How can we avoid this in future?

  • The list of duplicated Features has been moved to the Discussion page.

Papers to curate

  • I have taken the Sequence Feature Papers from RT and assigned the four of us 10 papers each.
  • Just in case there is any paper here that has already been curated for Interaction, I've added the number of Interaction objects linked to by the paper. If this is not helpful, feel free to remove it.
WBPaper00002925 Daniela Interaction: 8
                Time: 10 mins
                New objects: none. the paper was referring to a couple of sub-element enhancers already described in Okkema and Fire 1994- Development - B and C sub-elements -WBPaper00002011
                Location of information: - 
                Comments:  
WBPaper00004568 Daniela Interaction: 2
                Time: 25 mins
                New objects: 3 promoters- pA, pB, and pC
                Location of information: body text and fig.3 for promoters. Figures 5, 6 and 7 and body text for TF binding sites.
                Comments: Expression objects were already generated by Wen in the past. Daniela will add only the WBsf once ready. Also add WBsf object to the construct objects.
WBPaper00005842 Daniela
                Time: 3 hours                
                New objects:
                mk125-132 (4331-4474) is sufficient to drive strong expression in vulC and vulD. Expr11838 add feature and generate construct

                mk84-148 contains two regions that together confer strong expression in VulE and VulF. Expr11839 add feature and generate construct

                mk50-51 (1052-1438) is sufficient to confer AC, vulE, and vulA expression, as well as uterine cell expression. Expr11840 add feature and generate construct.

                mk96-144 (2290-2522) expresses in AC in all animals observed. Expr11841 add feature and generate construct.

                mk66-67 (4434-4997) is sufficient to confer vulval cell expression. Expr11842 add feature and generate construct.

                mk135-134 (2412-3419) is sufficient to confer vulval cell expression. N.B.: in text is mk135-134 in fig 4C seems mk135-143. Expr11843 add feature and generate construct.

                Location of information: The nucleotide sequences for pertinent regions are shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7 of the Supplemental Material.
                Comment: It would be good that a sequence curator will read the paper unbiased-w/o checking what I have curated for expression and see if we could identify the same regions
                Comment: potential TF binding sites
                Comment: Should we curate Briggsae? -Paragraph 'Analysis of C Briggsae upstream regions'

WBPaper00024328 Daniela Interaction: 4
                Time: 2.5 hours
                New objects: Added 4 Expression objects for 5 different constructs-pPHA2::GFP-A present already:

                pPHA2::GFP-A body text and Figs. 5 and 6 Expr3093 Add Sf to expr object and to construct 
                pPHA2::GFP-B body text and Figs. 5 and 6 Expr11835 Add Sf to expr object and to construct
                pPHA2::GFP-C body text and Figs. 5 and 6 Expr11835 Add Sf to expr object and to construct
                pPHA2::GFP-D body text and Figs. 5 and 6 Expr11837 Add Sf to expr object and to construct
                pPHA2::GFP-E body text and Figs. 5 and 6 Expr11836 Add Sf to expr object and to construct
                pPHA2::GFP-F body text and Figs. 5 and 6 Expr11834 Add Sf to expr object and to construct
                Detailed construction of plasmids in Materials and Methods
                Location of information: body text and Figs. 5 and 6 
                Comments: not sure if this paper could be curatable as sequence feature per se due to the nature of constructs. Would be good to discuss  
WBPaper00028802 Daniela
WBPaper00028915 Daniela
                Time: 15 mins
                Comments: No features in this paper
WBPaper00029140 Daniela
WBPaper00029255 Daniela Interaction: 55
WBPaper00030829 Daniela Interaction: 5
WBPaper00030933 Daniela Interaction: 1
WBPaper00003929 Gary Interaction: 25
                Time: 4 hours
                New objects: none - 6 existing Features were corrected and updated. (WBsf019182, WBsf019181, WBsf019179, WBsf019177, WBsf019178, WBsf019180)
                Location of information: body text and in a figure in the supplemental table of the paper WBPaper00006376
                Other curator data: "lin-41 and lin-42 are negatively regulated by let-7"
                Comments: This is Gary Ruvkun's (Nature 2000) let-7 paper that started the miRNA field!
                Comments: This is being marked as a pair of 'binding_site' Features because this is miRNA not TF binding.
                See also: let-7, lin-41 binding WBPaper00006376 PubMed: 14729570 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC324419/) - This is the paper that defined the binding sites.
                Comments (XW): curated one new cis-regulation object with Gary's WBsfs

WBPaper00005044 Gary Interaction: 20
                Time: 3 hours
                New objects: made ire-1 binding site Feature (WBsf977530)
                Location of information: body of this paper and WBPaper00005036
                Other curator data: IRE-1 is a stress-activated endonuclease resident in the ER that is conserved in all known eukaryotes. IRE-1 mediated unconventional splicing of an intron from xbp-1 mRNA controls expression of the encoded transcription factor and is required for upregulation of most UPR target genes.
                See also: WBPaper00005036
WBPaper00005971 Gary Interaction: 16 This has already been done by Gary: Feature WBsf718850
WBPaper00024440 Gary Interaction: 1
                Time: 3 hours
                New objects: Made WBsf977532, WBsf977533 M-2 motif/daf-12 binding sites for ceh-22
                New objects: Made WBsf977534, WBsf977535 M-2 motif/daf-12 binding sites for myo-2
                Location of information: body of this paper and Figure Supplemental 3
                Other curator data: "We conclude that regulation of myo-2 and ceh-22 during dauer development depends critically on the M-2 motif."
                Comments: lots of hypothetical binding sites for daf-12 in 90-odd genes, but these have not been experimentally confirmed.
WBPaper00028816 Gary
                Time: 30 mins
                New objects: none
                Location of information: body of this paper
                Other curator data: "recruitment sites are widely distributed along X to bind the DCC and nucleate DCC spreading to X regions lacking recruitment sites"
                Commments: This paper determines the A and B motifs of the Dosage Compensation Complex (DCC). There are hundreds of thousands of sites of varying strength.
WBPaper00028986 Gary Interaction: 16
WBPaper00029181 Gary
WBPaper00029327 GaryInteraction: 33
WBPaper00030849 Gary
WBPaper00031355 Gary Interaction: 5
WBPaper00004181 Mary Ann Interaction: 8 
                No Features. Took 5 mins to read. 
WBPaper00005056 Mary Ann 
                Time: 35 mins
                New objects: 37 - not yet curated.
                Location of information: Mainly in fig. 1, but in body text. 
                Comments: TRTTKRY element in promoter region of T05E11.3, D2096.6, C44H4.1, ZK816.4, ceh-22, 
                          tph-1, M05B5.2, myo-2. Bound by pha-4 
WBPaper00006429 Mary Ann Interaction: 3
                Time: 1/2hr
                New objects: 1
                Location of information: In body of text and fig. 3B
                Comments: Alludes to GATA binding sites, but no experimental data. 
                Comments (dr): Added Expr11833
WBPaper00024505 Mary Ann
                Time: 
                New objects: 
                Location of information: 
                Comments: 
WBPaper00028849 Mary Ann
                Time: 45 mins
                New objects: 1
                Location of information: In body of text and fig. 3B
                Comments(dr): Added Expr11832 
WBPaper00029058 Mary Ann Interaction: 50
WBPaper00029190 Mary Ann
WBPaper00029406 Mary Ann Interaction: 145
WBPaper00030877 Mary Ann Interaction: 8
WBPaper00031471 Mary Ann
               Time: 1hr
                New objects: 1
                Location of information: In body of text and fig. 5f
                Comments: Check that alleles of asd-2 in fig 3 are curated. yb1422, yb1415, yb1470, yb1419, yb1423
WBPaper00004482 Xiaodong Interaction: 2
                Time: two hours
                New objects: request new features for more interaction objects
                Location of information: figure 5A, 
                Comments: HOX/CEH-20 binding sites in hlh-8 promoter. feature will be used in cis-regulation and physical interaction objects
                Duplication: yes. only one interaction objects WBInteraction000001291 associated with the paper currently
WBPaper00005609 Xiaodong Interaction: 20 This has already been done by Margaret: Feature WBsf019097, WBsf038788, WBsf038789, WBsf038790, WBsf038791, WBsf038793, WBsf038794, WBsf019098, WBsf038792
                Time: 50 mins
                New objects: three interaction objects
                Location of information: In body of text and fig. 5
                Comments: only WBsf038790 and WBsf038791 are useful. not sure why other features exist? seems to be redundant?
WBPaper00024189 Xiaodong
                Time: 10 mins
                Comments: no features in this paper
WBPaper00024981 Xiaodong
                Time: 40 mins
                New objects: request through RT
                Location of information: figure 2
                Comments: MED-1 binding sites in end-1and end-3 promoters
                Comments (dr): Expr11831 generated for end-1 and end-3 promoter regions. Add WBsfID once available and relative construct. Paper checked as it came through RT 
WBPaper00028910 Xiaodong Interaction: 7
                Time: 30 mins
                New objects: request through RT
                Location of information: in body text and figure 4
                Comments: MEF-2 direct binding site in str-1 promoter and a few minimal regulatory region mentioned in body text

WBPaper00029109 Xiaodong

WBPaper00029229 Xiaodong Interaction: 3
WBPaper00030809 Xiaodong
WBPaper00030931 Xiaodong Interaction: 18
WBPaper00031565 Xiaodong Interaction: 1
                Time: 30 mins
                New objects: request through RT
                Location of information: in body text and figure 2 and figure 3
                Comments: PBC-HOX biding sites S1 and S2; cis-regulatory elements E1 and E2

  • I suggest we curate 5 of our papers before the jamboree, taking notes as described above and any other things that arise during your curation.