GMOD

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GMOD What Next?
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Application Areas

• Genome
• Single annotation
• Comparative annotation
• Genetics
• Stocks, strains, mutants
• QTL
• Variation
• Protein annotation
• Functional genomics
• Microarrays, SAGE, expression patterns,
  ChIP/chip, interaction data
• Pathways

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Software Enhancements

• Extend Chado?
• Integrate literature curation tools Textpresso
  (with Chado)?
• Make interaction viewers run on top of Chado?
• Revive BioPipe?

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Community Enhancements

• Public meetings?
• Standard operating procedures?
• Data sharing?
• Ortholog groups (Sonnhammer)
• TreeFam
• OReilly Model Organism Database Book?

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Development Process

• More top down?
• More bottom up?
• Deadlines deliverables?
• More user-driven?

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GMOD Meetings

• Annual grand meeting
• Encourage MOD PIs to come
• Developers meetings
• How often?
• Biocurator meetings
• How often?
• Joint developer/biocurator meetings?