Community Annotation:Feature Controlled Vocabulary Term Submission Guide

From VectorBase Help System

If you have specialized knowledge of a gene, transcript, or protein's functional role, you can submit Gene Ontology (or other controlled vocabulary) terms that describe that functionality to VectorBase. After submission, your term will be reviewed by a VectorBase curator and once approved, will be displayed in the VectorBase GeneView Gene DAS Report.

This guide describes how to submit a controlled vocabulary term to VectorBase.

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VectorBase User Login Page	You need to be logged in to submit data to VectorBase. Go to the "User" section, enter your user name and password, and click "Log In."
A gene's gene report page	You can associate a controlled vocabulary term with a gene directly from a gene report page. To associate a cv term with a gene, first navigate to the gene report page of the gene you're going to associate the term with.
Inactive Community Annotation DAS Track	Scroll down to the Gene View Gene DAS Report. If the Community Annotation track is not activated, check the box and and click the Update button.
Active Community Annotation DAS Track	The active Community Annotation DAS Report will show all user-associated annotation for this gene. Click on the Associate a CV Term with this feature link to begin the controlled vocabulary term submission process.
Controlled Vocabulary Term Submission Page	First, enter the accession number of the controlled vocabulary term you're submitting. Then, describe how you determined the gene's functionality by either selecting or entering a publication PubMedID or entering a textual description of the determination process. Next, click Submit.
CV Term Preview	Term and determination method details are show to you on the controlled vocabulary term preview page. After verifying that the submitted data is correct, click the Yes button to confirm your submission.
CV Term Submission Complete	After confirmation, you'll be shown a page indicating whether your term was submitted successfully or not. If there were no problems during submission, your controlled vocabulary term will be sent to a VectorBase curator for review.
Display of a Feature CV Term	When approved by a VectorBase curator, your controlled vocabulary term will appear in the Gene View Gene DAS Report.