POC Conf. Call 10-11-11

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Oct 11th, 2011 10am (PDT)

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators: none

Any changes or corrections (additions/deletions, etc) needed in the minutes from the POC_Conf._Call_10-4-11?

Issues and status reports for the Upcoming Release

Dbxrefs

Links to images on PlantSystematics.org

Now that we have a way customize the dbxrefs, we can add an automatic link to images on PlantSystematics.org.

We need two kinds of links: directly to individual images and to keyword search results.

KN can create a single url that will link to either a keyword or a unique image id.

We need to decide if we also want to have id numbers for keywords - if so we will need to provide a table of those (keyword/id records). RW thinks that having another set of ids would get confusing, and suggests just using keywords. Alternately, we could use the PO id# as the ID for a key word, but then we might run into problems when the same PO id maps to multiple keywords (because of synonyms).

We need to decide on an abbreviation: PSO, PlantSystematics.org (don't know if dot is allowed) or something else.

RW prefers PSO because it is easy to type, but it may cause confusion with the obsolete abbreviation for Plant Structure Ontology. Opinions?

Test links: We can only put a few links in for this release. Any preferences on what they should be?

septum, replum (if we can find good image), others?

Other dbxref issues?

Added new link for AP:web. Is it working?

Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2011/2012:

Plant Genomes & Biotechnology: From Genes to Networks, CSHL

Dates: November 30 - December 3, 2011 Abstract Deadline: September 9, 2011...

Academic/Student No-Housing Package $720

RW registered and submitted abstract (Media:PO_abstract_PGBatCSHL2011.pdf). Will need to present a preliminary data analysis for the talk/poster.

PAG 2012

January 14-18, 2012, San Diego, California

• Registration and Abstract submissions: open on Sept 22
• Early Pre-Registration Deadline: October 31
• Travel Grants Deadline: November 1
• Abstract Submission Deadline: November 11

Our proposal for an Ontology workshop for PAG has been approved. It will be on Saturday January 14th from 10:20am-12:30pm

Use of Ontologies for Organizing Plant and Animal Genomics Data

Please see the PAG_2012_Ontology_workshop wiki page.

Suggestions for speakers??

Should have talks from people working on ontology applications, rather than ontology development, to show utility.

PJ suggested the following: Text mining applications like TextPresso, Phenolog, Nick Provart (BAR) others...?

Procedure: LC should contact potential speakers and ask them to submit an abstract to us and to the organizers.

LC is presenting in the Plant Phenotypes workshop on Sunday Morning, 15 January 2012 -- 8:00 am - 10:10 am.

LC will prepare an abstract and send to MS as well as

The PO will take part in an Outreach booth organized by MaizeGDB

Who is attending: LC, PJ (weekend), maybe JP, JE.

Other activities?

Phenotype RCN meeting, 23-25 February 2012

The dates: February 23-25, 2012 (Thursday, Friday, 1/2 Saturday) have been confirmed for the next annual Phenotype RCN meeting.

It will be held again at NESCent (Durham, NC).

RW has a friend there she can stay with and is interested in going.

5th International Biocuration Conference

April 2-4, 2012, Washington DC

Call for abstracts is now open: Need to clarify the deadlines

There are three submission categories for abstracts:

1. Talk or Poster (with consideration for oral presentation)

2. Poster only

3. Workshop only

• Submission deadline November 30, 2011

• Notification of acceptance February 3, 2012

Instructions

There are seven topic sessions from which submitters are invited to select:

  1. Ontologies, standards and best practices, including gold standard datasets.
  2. Protein annotation; sequences, structures and pathways.
  3. Community annotation and Wikis.
  4. Genomics and metagenomics data curation.
  5. High throughput proteomics data (focus on NGS and MS data) curation and presentation.
  6. Literature collection, text mining and curation.
  7. Tools to assist curation, including automated pipelines. 

There are four submission tracks:

  1. Paper, with consideration for oral presentation
  2. Talk
  3. Workshop
  4. Poster 

PJ planning to attend and will be running a biocuration workshop, LC and RW can go, DWS will be away,

'From 9-27-11: PJ: we should ask MS, and possibly SR, to contribute to the abstract and the annotation guide.

We ran out of time to discuss this- tabled for next week

Botany 2012

July 7 - 11, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio

Call for Symposia, Colloquia and Workshops:

Submission site now open. Deadline for submissions is Saturday, October 15th, 2011 at 11:59 PM PST.

RW, DWS and MAG will put together a proposal for a half day hands-on workshop. The goal will be to teach people (mostly botanists) how to access and use the PO, including how to send feedback, suggest new terms, etc.

PJ: suggest that we go there with a 'draft' version of the Plant Phenotype Ontology and show them how to use these in character matrixes. RW will put the draft plant PATO on the SVN.

• We need to have a section sponsor for the workshop proposal, DWS suggested the structural section (Head: Bruce Kirchoff), paleo section or systematists. Development and structural, genetics, and teaching sections would also be appropriate co-sponsors.

From meeting website:

When you submit your proposal, you will be asked for the following information:

• What Societies and Sections will be sponsoring the session. Please provide contact information for any persons who have approved the sponsorship
• The societies participating in Botany 2012 of which you are a member
• The names, email and street addresses of the organizers, and which of them will lead the session
• A title and description of the session
• Keywords and web links that are relevant
• Requirements, such as room type, food, special equipment or transportation, depending on the type of proposal
• An estimate of anticipated attendance
• A list of invited speakers or leaders, if relevant.

We should also consider hosting an outreach booth.

Not a bad deal for non-profits: $500 for A 10 x 10 Booth Space at Botany 2012, and 2 complimentary registrations for the conference. (plus all the extras!)

• 2 months of Rotating Banner Ads in the online American Journal of Botany

• A Rotating Banner Ad in one edition of the online Plant Science Bulletin

• A Rotating Banner Ad on the Botany 2012 abstract submission site

• A Rotating Banner Ad on the 2012 Conference Registration site.

PJ will check with Gramene and Doreen Ware to see if they want to co-host a booth.