Functional annotation updates

PopGenIE aims to have a tool for submitting functional annotation updates to current gene model predictions. This will include expression evidence, functional evidence and assignment to GO categories etc.

We plan on the tool being a fairly simple form based submission process that will allow single gene or bulk data submission. Data will be manually examined before being accepted and where needed, we will seek the advice of an expert on particular genes to manually ok annotation updates. As such, we also need to develop a database of experts that are willing to serve in this capacity.

We also need to decide how to re-supply this information to the community (e.g. immediately upon annotation update acceptance or as bulk updates per period of time) and how to integrate this data to Phytozome and other community data sources.

This thread is intended as a starting point to comment on the above issues, to suggest how the update tool should work and to provide examples of existing resources that you either like (state why) or do not like (again, state why).