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POC members: ''Laurel Cooper (OSU), Ramona Walls (NYBG), Justin Elser (OSU), Dennis Stevenson (NYBG), Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU)''
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Absent:
 
  
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Absent:''Marie Alejandra Gandolfo (Cornell), Justin Preece (OSU), Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, NY)''
  
 
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Back to [[POC Meetings Minutes]]
 
Back to [[POC Meetings Minutes]]
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=News since last meeting July 3rd=
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* Release #18 is out [[July_2012_Release]]
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Two significant new terms have been added to help categorize the problematic plant structures such as fruit and seed, and their parts.
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* multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025496) has been added as a direct sub-class of plant structure (PO:0009011) and is the new parent term for fruit (PO:0009001), seed (PO:0009010), and plant organ (PO:0009008).
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* cardinal part of multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025498)- This term includes cardinal parts of plant organs such as leaf lamina (PO:0020039) or receptacle (PO:0009064), as well as parts of other multi-tissue plant structures, such as fruit distal end (PO:0008001) or arilloid (PO:0019022).
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A new term, collective plant structure (PO:0025497), was created to describe collections of plant structures and to serve as parent term to collective plant organ structure (PO:0025007) and collective organ part structure (PO:0025269). Note that collective plant organ structure (PO:0025007) was formerly named "collective plant structure" (the same name as the new upper-level term), but was renamed for clarity.
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''We discussed the new terms and whether or not the names are appropriate or if they could be made less confusing.  We should review the names and definitions and make sure the child terms such as anther are in the appropriate class. BS suggested it might be helpful to ask Jose Mejino of the FMA to look at these.''
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''PJ was concerned that users would be confused by seeing, for example, two structures that are siblings, but one is also part of the other. BS: People who want to use ontologies (domain experts) often are put off by the complex modeling of the ontology. One way to deal with this is to create simpler user vies (e.g., using Ontodog).''
 +
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* '''Please review the [[PO_Release_SOP_Page]]'''.  I revised and updated for the most recent release, but it is good to make sure we have not missed anything.
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* '''AJB paper is out!''' see link: [http://www.amjbot.org/content/early/2012/07/29/ajb.1200222.abstract Bio-ontologies]
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''Need to post notices on PO home page and facebook and could send something out on po-announce as well.''
 +
 +
''Maybe look at PO web page to see if there is any change in visitors after publication of this paper or the Wood Ontology paper.''
 +
 +
* PAE paper is being revised-consolidated all the comments from everyone and updating to match the release. Will go out again to everyone this week.
 +
 +
 +
* PSDS invited paper- for Special Issue on "Functional Genomics and Systems Biology in the Post Genomics Era" that will be published in 2013 in Physiologia Plantarum.
 +
 +
''PJ: The PAE paper could also go into Phys. Plantarum instead, if it is too soon for this one.''
 +
 +
''RW would like everyone to send her ideas as to what they would like to see in it.''
 +
 +
''Do we know if this is the end of October or the beginning?''
 +
 +
''Either way, in order to get it done by October, we need to have a draft done by September. The question is whether or not the PSDS is ready to write about. The upper level structure has been extensivly revised, but we still have a lot of changes to make to more specific terms.''
 +
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''DS: Outlining what would go into paper would show what needs to be done.''
 +
 +
''PJ: New grape annotations. However, they are not in there yet.''
 +
 +
''BS: How having a development stage ontology could be useful to people's research. (Some of that is already published in the previous paper). Take what was said in the old paper and update it based on what has been learned about ontology building as well as on the on the data side.''
 +
 +
''What can new data sets accomplish. Not heavy on the actually current structure of the ontology, but a statement of what we are doing and the principles.''
 +
 +
''PJ: Highlight that there are no published reports or funding to compare development of different species (Is this true? It is true for examples like comparing berry of grape to other fruit say five days after pollenation). Highlight comparative aspects (yes!).''
 +
 +
=Plans for the next release=
 +
 +
Tentatively planned for [[October_2012_Release]]
 +
 +
Priorities for next release:
 +
 +
==Continue major revision of PSDS==
 +
Focus on the revisions on the stages that have the most annotations:
 +
 +
'''PO:0007033 : whole plant development stage'''
 +
 +
'''> PO:0028002 : sporophyte development stage'''
 +
 +
>> PO:0007130 : sporophyte reproductive stage [46604]: (Some still have the numbers preceding them, others don't)
 +
 +
>>> PO:0007047 : 3 inflorescence detectable stage [29131]
 +
 +
>>>PO:0007016 : 4 flowering [28057]
 +
 +
>>>PO:0007042 : 5 fruit formation [31009]
 +
 +
>>>PO:0007010 : 6 ripening [37642]
 +
 +
 +
'''>> PO:0007134 : sporophyte vegetative stage [60370]:'''  (Some still have the numbers preceding them, others don't)
 +
 +
>>>PO:0007057 : 0 seed germination stage [29568]
 +
 +
>>>PO:0007112 : 1 main shoot growth stage [47411]
 +
 +
>>>PO:0007131 : seedling development stage [26673]
 +
 +
 +
 +
'''PO:0009012 : plant structure development stage:'''
 +
 +
> PO:0007615 : flower development stage [48067]
 +
 +
>PO:0001083 : inflorescence development stage [48067]
 +
 +
 +
'''PO:0025339 : plant organ development stage [46618]'''
 +
 +
>PO:0001050 : leaf development stage [45968]
 +
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>PO:0007520 : root development stage [25208]
  
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=Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2012:=
 
  
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==[http://www.botanyconference.org/ Botany 2012]==
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'''PO:0025338 : collective plant structure development stage [49645]'''
  
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July 7 - 11, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio
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>PO:0007615 : flower development stage [48067]
  
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[http://www.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=31 PO workshop] on '''Sunday, July 8th, 9:00AM - 12:00PM'''
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''What about development of other anatomical entities? "Plant structure development stage" only covers structures, but we may want to talk about development of anatomical spaces of substances like cuticle.''
  
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see: link on [http://www.2012.botanyconference.org/info/Workshops.php Botany 2012 workshops schedule] to view the abstract.
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''BFO 2.0 addresses whether or not sites have histories the way material entities do.''
  
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Wiki page for workshop: [[Plant Ontology Workshop, Botany 2012]]
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''We need to make sure, as we revise, that the PSDS terms correspond to the PAE terms (some upper level re-organization has already been done to align them).''
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Goal of workshop:  To teach people (mostly botanists) how to access and use the PO, including how to send feedback, suggest new terms, etc.
 
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A desktop version of the image annotation software will be to demo'ed at this meeting.
 
  
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Announcement has been posted on the PO home page and FB page.
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''Annotations of development stages:''
  
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[[Botany_2012_PO_workshop_planning_page]]
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''PJ suggested that annotating directly to development stage should be required. We have mechanisms to move annotations back and forth between PAEs and PSDSs, based on ontology relations, but at this point, when people download annotation directly from the server (rather than via Amigo), they do not aggregate based on ontology relations.''
  
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===exhibitor's booth===
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''Another issue is that the annotations only move to the generic term (e.g., an annotation to leaf may go to generic leaf development stage, but it would go to the more specific stage of development of the leaf.''
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The PO will put up a display at the NYBG booth
 
  
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RW will purchase a monitor (~22") that could display a rotating slideshow. Could also be used for future presentations. This will be on display at the NYBG press booth. We will also have internet access there, so we can demo the PO to interested people.
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''Mysql queries also only give direct annotations.''
  
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==Bio-Ontologies SIG 2012==
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''Ultimately, we would like to have tools that suggest development stages, when annotator searches for a structure, or vice versa.''
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Where: July 13 - 14, 2012, Long Beach, CA. Co-located with [http://www.iscb.org/ismb2012 ISMB 2012]
 
  
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See: [http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/call-for-participation Bio-Ontologies SIG 2012]
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==file naming and which variations of the file to create for each release==
  
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Three types of submissions.
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see [[PO_Release_SOP_Page]]
  
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- Short papers, up to 4 pages.
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''tabled for a future discussion''
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- Poster abstracts, up to 1 page.
 
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- Flash updates, up to 1 page
 
  
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Successful papers will be presented at the Bio-Ontologies SIG.
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==Complete outstanding user requests/SF tracker items==
  
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Poster abstracts: time will be allocated during the 2 days for at least one poster session.
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See the list at: [[Items_for_future_meetings]]
  
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Flash updates are for short talks (5 min) giving the salient new developments on existing public ontologies. Authors of posters can also provide a flash update. Unsuccessful papers will automatically be considered for poster presentation.
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''tabled for a future discussion''
  
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''Currently no one from the PO is planning to attend''
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==Update the Po webpages==
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- Which ones are top priority?
  
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==ASPB Plant Biology 2012==
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See: [[Plant_Ontology_Web_Site_Update:_Winter_2012]]
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July 20 - 24, 2012 - Plant Biology 2012, Austin, TX
 
  
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Link to meeting page: [http://austin2012.aspb.org/ ASPB2012]
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''tabled for a future discussion''
  
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Abstract was submitted for submission: Poster Number: P28002
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=Meeting reports=
 +
==[http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/ ICBO 2012]==
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===Disease ontology===
 +
RW presented a paper on a plant disease extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDOplant). The paper was well received, and there was a lot of discussion (after the talk) about how to model disease symptoms. The IDOplant manuscript defined "plant disase symptom", but did not include a term for it in the ontology. The Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) is planning to remove their term for symptom, for similar reasons -- a symptom can really be anything.
  
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[http://my.aspb.org/default.asp?page=Meetings_PB12Wrkshps Plant Informatics Workshop] is planned with TAIR, Gramene and PO : Saturday, July 21, 2012, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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Symptoms should be modeled as dispositions. An infectious disease is a disposition, which is borne by some plant and has as a material basis some infectious disorder. As a result of having the infection, that plant also bears the disposition to undergo certain processes, which may lead to measurable/observable changes in the plant. For example, infection by a particular microbe results in the disposition to lose chlorophyll, which may lead to  yellow leaves. Of course, the mechanisms could be modeled in even more detail, for example, at the molecular level. As dispositions, symptoms or signs are mechanistically linked to a disease, but it is never stated that every instance of the disease course will display a particular symptom. This way of modeling diseases and symptoms requires that we think carefully about the processes involved in a disease course, which is what we will need if we want to use ontologies to learn something new about diseases.
  
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LC is attending
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===New tools for ontology editing===
 +
RW attended an OBI workshop while at IBCO. This included presentation of some of the tools being developed by Oliver He's lab. These may be of general interest to the PO curators.
  
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==ICBO 2012==
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*[http://www.ontobee.org/ Ontobee]: A web server aimed to facilitate ontology visualization, query, and development. This is already familiar to many people in the ontology community.
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'''International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies''' ([http://purl.bioontology.org/ICBO/ ICBO 2012]), July 22nd-25th, Graz, Austria
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*[http://ontofox.hegroup.org/ Ontofox]: An easy-to-use web-based tool for importing ontology terms using the MIREOT process.
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*[http://ontodog.hegroup.org/ Ontodog]: A web-based tool for generating community views of ontologies. Allows users to create subsets of an ontology with their own preferred term names. This could be very helpful for PO users who represent specific parts of the plant science community. ''RW: I haven't tried this one yet, so not sure how easy it is to use''.
  
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co-located with the 7th International Conference on [http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/ Formal Ontologies in Information Systems] (FOIS 2012)
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==[http://austin2012.aspb.org/ ASPB 2012]==
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July 20 - 24, 2012 - Plant Biology 2012, Austin, TX
  
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RW and BS (with JE, AG, DWS and PJ) submitted a short paper describing a plant disease extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology. This paper was accepted. Wiki page for notes on [[Plant Disease Ontology]].
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Link to meeting page: [http://austin2012.aspb.org/ ASPB2012]
  
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'''Relevant dates'''
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Helped organize an [[Outreach booth- ASPB Plant Biology 2012]] along with Gramene, TAIR, BAR, iPlant, PMN, Kbase.  Many people came and talked with us about all the different projects and I got to talk to our collaborators a lot too. 
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* June 30th 2012: Deadline for all camera-ready copies for the proceedings
 
  
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RW will present the IDO-Plant paper and a poster on the PO-FNA collaboration.
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[http://my.aspb.org/default.asp?page=Meetings_PB12Wrkshps Plant Informatics Workshop] was held with TAIR, Gramene and PO : Saturday, July 21, 2012, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM.  About 53 people attended.
  
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BS will be organizing an OBO Foundry meeting the afternoon of the day before the conference starts
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=Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2012:=
  
 
==Anatomy Ontology Course at NESCent, July 30th- Aug 3rd, 2012==
 
==Anatomy Ontology Course at NESCent, July 30th- Aug 3rd, 2012==
 
Link to:  [https://academy.nescent.org/wiki/Anatomy_ontologies Anatomy Ontology course]
 
Link to:  [https://academy.nescent.org/wiki/Anatomy_ontologies Anatomy Ontology course]
  
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from Paula Mabee: Opening are available the Anatomy Ontology course.
 
  
 
Link to [https://academy.nescent.org/wiki/Ontologies_2012_course_materials Course materials]
 
Link to [https://academy.nescent.org/wiki/Ontologies_2012_course_materials Course materials]
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LM will be attending
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LM is attending
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==Online Ontology Workshops at The University at Buffalo==
 
==Online Ontology Workshops at The University at Buffalo==
  
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==PO/TO Crop Annotation Workshop at OSU==
 
==PO/TO Crop Annotation Workshop at OSU==
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For more information see the wiki page: [[Plant Ontology Crop Annotation Workshop at OSU, 2012]]
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For more information see the wiki page: [[Plant_Ontology_and_Crop_Annotation_Workshop_OSU_2012]]
  
 
Dates: Sept. 13-15th
 
Dates: Sept. 13-15th
  
 
The focus of the workshop will be on mostly development stages and traits for the crop plants
 
The focus of the workshop will be on mostly development stages and traits for the crop plants
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=Next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Aug 14th, 2012 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT=
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See: [[POC_Conf._Call_8-14-12]]

Latest revision as of 18:33, 20 November 2013

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday July 31st, 2012 10am PDT/1pm EDT

In attendance:

POC members: Laurel Cooper (OSU), Ramona Walls (NYBG), Justin Elser (OSU), Dennis Stevenson (NYBG), Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU)

Absent:Marie Alejandra Gandolfo (Cornell), Justin Preece (OSU), Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, NY)

Collaborators: none


Any changes or corrections (additions/deletions, etc) needed in the minutes from the POC_Conf._Call_7-3-12?

Back to POC Meetings Minutes

News since last meeting July 3rd

Two significant new terms have been added to help categorize the problematic plant structures such as fruit and seed, and their parts.

  • multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025496) has been added as a direct sub-class of plant structure (PO:0009011) and is the new parent term for fruit (PO:0009001), seed (PO:0009010), and plant organ (PO:0009008).
  • cardinal part of multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025498)- This term includes cardinal parts of plant organs such as leaf lamina (PO:0020039) or receptacle (PO:0009064), as well as parts of other multi-tissue plant structures, such as fruit distal end (PO:0008001) or arilloid (PO:0019022).

A new term, collective plant structure (PO:0025497), was created to describe collections of plant structures and to serve as parent term to collective plant organ structure (PO:0025007) and collective organ part structure (PO:0025269). Note that collective plant organ structure (PO:0025007) was formerly named "collective plant structure" (the same name as the new upper-level term), but was renamed for clarity.

We discussed the new terms and whether or not the names are appropriate or if they could be made less confusing. We should review the names and definitions and make sure the child terms such as anther are in the appropriate class. BS suggested it might be helpful to ask Jose Mejino of the FMA to look at these.

PJ was concerned that users would be confused by seeing, for example, two structures that are siblings, but one is also part of the other. BS: People who want to use ontologies (domain experts) often are put off by the complex modeling of the ontology. One way to deal with this is to create simpler user vies (e.g., using Ontodog).

  • Please review the PO_Release_SOP_Page. I revised and updated for the most recent release, but it is good to make sure we have not missed anything.


Need to post notices on PO home page and facebook and could send something out on po-announce as well.

Maybe look at PO web page to see if there is any change in visitors after publication of this paper or the Wood Ontology paper.

  • PAE paper is being revised-consolidated all the comments from everyone and updating to match the release. Will go out again to everyone this week.


  • PSDS invited paper- for Special Issue on "Functional Genomics and Systems Biology in the Post Genomics Era" that will be published in 2013 in Physiologia Plantarum.

PJ: The PAE paper could also go into Phys. Plantarum instead, if it is too soon for this one.

RW would like everyone to send her ideas as to what they would like to see in it.

Do we know if this is the end of October or the beginning?

Either way, in order to get it done by October, we need to have a draft done by September. The question is whether or not the PSDS is ready to write about. The upper level structure has been extensivly revised, but we still have a lot of changes to make to more specific terms.

DS: Outlining what would go into paper would show what needs to be done.

PJ: New grape annotations. However, they are not in there yet.

BS: How having a development stage ontology could be useful to people's research. (Some of that is already published in the previous paper). Take what was said in the old paper and update it based on what has been learned about ontology building as well as on the on the data side.

What can new data sets accomplish. Not heavy on the actually current structure of the ontology, but a statement of what we are doing and the principles.

PJ: Highlight that there are no published reports or funding to compare development of different species (Is this true? It is true for examples like comparing berry of grape to other fruit say five days after pollenation). Highlight comparative aspects (yes!).

Plans for the next release

Tentatively planned for October_2012_Release

Priorities for next release:

Continue major revision of PSDS

Focus on the revisions on the stages that have the most annotations:

PO:0007033 : whole plant development stage

> PO:0028002 : sporophyte development stage

>> PO:0007130 : sporophyte reproductive stage [46604]: (Some still have the numbers preceding them, others don't)

>>> PO:0007047 : 3 inflorescence detectable stage [29131]

>>>PO:0007016 : 4 flowering [28057]

>>>PO:0007042 : 5 fruit formation [31009]

>>>PO:0007010 : 6 ripening [37642]


>> PO:0007134 : sporophyte vegetative stage [60370]: (Some still have the numbers preceding them, others don't)

>>>PO:0007057 : 0 seed germination stage [29568]

>>>PO:0007112 : 1 main shoot growth stage [47411]

>>>PO:0007131 : seedling development stage [26673]


PO:0009012 : plant structure development stage:

> PO:0007615 : flower development stage [48067]

>PO:0001083 : inflorescence development stage [48067]


PO:0025339 : plant organ development stage [46618]

>PO:0001050 : leaf development stage [45968]

>PO:0007520 : root development stage [25208]


PO:0025338 : collective plant structure development stage [49645]

>PO:0007615 : flower development stage [48067]

What about development of other anatomical entities? "Plant structure development stage" only covers structures, but we may want to talk about development of anatomical spaces of substances like cuticle.

BFO 2.0 addresses whether or not sites have histories the way material entities do.

We need to make sure, as we revise, that the PSDS terms correspond to the PAE terms (some upper level re-organization has already been done to align them).

Annotations of development stages:

PJ suggested that annotating directly to development stage should be required. We have mechanisms to move annotations back and forth between PAEs and PSDSs, based on ontology relations, but at this point, when people download annotation directly from the server (rather than via Amigo), they do not aggregate based on ontology relations.

Another issue is that the annotations only move to the generic term (e.g., an annotation to leaf may go to generic leaf development stage, but it would go to the more specific stage of development of the leaf.

Mysql queries also only give direct annotations.

Ultimately, we would like to have tools that suggest development stages, when annotator searches for a structure, or vice versa.

file naming and which variations of the file to create for each release

see PO_Release_SOP_Page

tabled for a future discussion

Complete outstanding user requests/SF tracker items

See the list at: Items_for_future_meetings

tabled for a future discussion

Update the Po webpages

- Which ones are top priority?

See: Plant_Ontology_Web_Site_Update:_Winter_2012

tabled for a future discussion

Meeting reports

ICBO 2012

Disease ontology

RW presented a paper on a plant disease extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDOplant). The paper was well received, and there was a lot of discussion (after the talk) about how to model disease symptoms. The IDOplant manuscript defined "plant disase symptom", but did not include a term for it in the ontology. The Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) is planning to remove their term for symptom, for similar reasons -- a symptom can really be anything.

Symptoms should be modeled as dispositions. An infectious disease is a disposition, which is borne by some plant and has as a material basis some infectious disorder. As a result of having the infection, that plant also bears the disposition to undergo certain processes, which may lead to measurable/observable changes in the plant. For example, infection by a particular microbe results in the disposition to lose chlorophyll, which may lead to yellow leaves. Of course, the mechanisms could be modeled in even more detail, for example, at the molecular level. As dispositions, symptoms or signs are mechanistically linked to a disease, but it is never stated that every instance of the disease course will display a particular symptom. This way of modeling diseases and symptoms requires that we think carefully about the processes involved in a disease course, which is what we will need if we want to use ontologies to learn something new about diseases.

New tools for ontology editing

RW attended an OBI workshop while at IBCO. This included presentation of some of the tools being developed by Oliver He's lab. These may be of general interest to the PO curators.

  • Ontobee: A web server aimed to facilitate ontology visualization, query, and development. This is already familiar to many people in the ontology community.
  • Ontofox: An easy-to-use web-based tool for importing ontology terms using the MIREOT process.
  • Ontodog: A web-based tool for generating community views of ontologies. Allows users to create subsets of an ontology with their own preferred term names. This could be very helpful for PO users who represent specific parts of the plant science community. RW: I haven't tried this one yet, so not sure how easy it is to use.

ASPB 2012

July 20 - 24, 2012 - Plant Biology 2012, Austin, TX

Link to meeting page: ASPB2012

Helped organize an Outreach booth- ASPB Plant Biology 2012 along with Gramene, TAIR, BAR, iPlant, PMN, Kbase. Many people came and talked with us about all the different projects and I got to talk to our collaborators a lot too.

Plant Informatics Workshop was held with TAIR, Gramene and PO : Saturday, July 21, 2012, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM. About 53 people attended.

Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2012:

Anatomy Ontology Course at NESCent, July 30th- Aug 3rd, 2012

Link to: Anatomy Ontology course


Link to Course materials

This course aims to teach proper ontology design principles and practices such that anatomical interoperability across evolutionarily disparate taxa is achieved. It further seeks to promote community growth and adoption of ontology-based methods and tools. The subsequent benefit is in the form of shared access to the unique data store of each community (e.g. genetic, genomic, developmental, and evolutionary data).

Apply here: [1]


LM is attending

Online Ontology Workshops at The University at Buffalo

The University at Buffalo is pleased to announce two on-line tutorials in ontology:

1. Introduction to Protégé for absolute beginners:

Saturday and Sunday, August 11-12, 2012.

Faculty: Ron Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo), Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo), Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)

This course will provide an introduction to the Protégé 4.2 ontology editor. It will begin with a brief introduction to ontology building, and to the use and importance of ontologies. This will be followed by an introduction to the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The bulk of the course will consist of an interactive introduction to the use of Protégé in building an ontology. No background in the use of computer languages and programming is presupposed. All sessions will be highly interactive.


2. Basic Formal Ontology 2.0

Saturday and Sunday, August 18-19, 2012

Faculty: Alan Ruttenberg and Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)


Basic Formal Ontology is currently being used by over 100 ontology-based research projects in biomedical informatics and increasingly in other fields. The tutorial will provide an introduction to the content and use of BFO in ontology development. Participants will acquire knowledge of the ontology and of its use as top-level ontology in multiple ontology development projects in a variety of fields. They will learn about the most recent developments in the new version 2.0 of the BFO ontology, including new formalizations of BFO in first-order logic and in OWL.


Both tutorials are also open for face-to-face participation.


PO/TO Crop Annotation Workshop at OSU

For more information see the wiki page: Plant_Ontology_and_Crop_Annotation_Workshop_OSU_2012

Dates: Sept. 13-15th

The focus of the workshop will be on mostly development stages and traits for the crop plants

Next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Aug 14th, 2012 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT

See: POC_Conf._Call_8-14-12

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