Ann Taylor - Professional Annotator
Ann Taylor is a professional annotator working at the Sanger Institute in the UK. She updates existing manual annotations with information about novel protein-protein interactions in recent publications. She believes in the importance of her work, is very serious about it, and is extremely meticulous in her level of attention. She prides herself in the number of annotators she knows by name and email.
At the age of 35, she has never married, but she still keeps an eye open for prospects. Having travelled extensively, she considers herself to be open-minded, well educated, and a fabulous cook. (Her friends generally agree on the latter two.) Occasionally she has submitted travel articles for publication in local magazines, and is a frequent contributor to the "letters to the editor" section of local and national newspapers. She has a degree in microbiology with a minor in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, but was lured out to the UK by the prospect of working on the Human Genome project. Nowadays, her roots have been planted, and she intends to stay where she is.
Not only is Ann very proficient with the tools of her day-to-day work, she is also open-minded to experimenting with emerging tools that might make her life easier. After all, she has found e-mail and instant messenger a boon for keeping in touch with her mnay friends overseas. That said, she has a healthy dose of scepticism developed over years of watching new tools get introduced, break, and disappear.
Goals
To be an involved, contributing member of her scientific community.
To make use of her expertise to inform and enlighten collaborators in the field.
To provide a fundamental and accurate data source for the use of scientists around the world.
To be able to do her annotation work efficiently and effectively.
To remain up-to-speed on new developments within her scientific community.