When researchers request annotations via the AgBase Community Requests and Submissions page, the count is also incremented.
Researchers who request annotations are provided with a view only link to access the relevant GP list so that they can track their request in the queue.
Due to the possibility of precalculating several scores (GERP, PolyPhen and SIFT) for every position in the genome, tools such as ANNOVAR or SeattleSeq make use of databases to look up the requested annotation.
Thus, they could be approvals or denials of a letter of petition, acknowledgements of a report, grants of permission for a request, an annotation to a decree, or other government documents.
For example, a researcher could provide a list of SNPs and a list of groups, and then request an annotation of genes to regions.
Over the past 5 years, we received an average of six requests for annotation of data sets with more than 1000 gene products.
We encourage researchers to contact AgBase directly with requests for annotation of specific gene sets to support their own experimental analysis.
(ii) Analysis of the protein sequences requests protein annotations from InterPro (Hunter et al., 2009), Phobius (Käll et al., 2007) and PrediSi (Hiller et al., 2004).
Evidence for this activity may have been in another publication but since the author instructions requested only annotations directly supported by experimental results presented within the article itself, such submissions were considered invalid.
These ontologies are under continuous maintenance with new terms being actively added, as and when curators or users request them for annotation of new phenotypic traits.
