Invitation to Join the OSDD TBGO Annotations QC and Wrapup

Invitation to Join the OSDD TBGO Annotations QC and Wrapup
Dear OSDD Enthusiasts

As part of the connect to Decode Initiative, early this year we had organised a programme for collaborative annotation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome. With active community help, we were able to annotate most of the genes in the organisms with standard Gene Ontology (GO) terminologies. We are planning to do the final QC and wrapup the first round of annotations which we hope to start releasing to the world on 9-11 April 2010 with the C2D10 http://c2d10.osdd.net meeting.

This is an open call to student volunteers, researchers and scientists to contribute to this initiative by verifying the annotations using literature and other evidence. A best selected team of few volunteers would also be invited to attend the C2D10 http://c2d10.osdd.net an event at Delhi, in addition to winning exciting prizes. This is also open to all contributors of TBGO who have not been able to keep the pace of the activities and have dropped off at different levels.

All interested participants may join any of the team leaders listed below DIRECTLY. The team leaders would guide you on how to go about the annotations.

Dipon-diponlove@hotmail.com
Gourja -gourja@gmail.com
Deepa-deeps8891@yahoo.co.in
Vivek-vbhardwaj247@gmail.com
Chris-chrissheba@gmail.com
Sangeetha-sangeethabalaguru@gmail.com

Please feel free to circulate it among your friends and colleagues or volunteers who might be interested in participating.

The LAST DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 25th MARCH 2010

Best regards
Vinod