POC Conf. Call 9-27-11

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Sept 27th, 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_9-20-11?

Upcoming Release- from 9/20

Major changes for this release are:

1. Inclusion of Spanish synonyms.

They seem to be working fine, except that we still should have the descriptor "(Spanish:)" preceding them.

Not clear if this is a problem with just the dev browser.

For the release, we will highlight this new feature as we are the first ontology to offer spanish (and possibly Japanese) translations. Will send out the announcements in Spanish as well.

2. Eliminating_Zea/Poaceae_terms_from_PO

This is more or less complete. PGDSO may change as we go forward, but we can use as is for now.

3. New annotation files:

We are working on getting the new set of MaizeGDB annotations in.

Addition of new annotations for grape (LC working on) and strawberry

What is the status of the Physcomitrella annotations? PJ will reply to SR about the Physco annotations- re: they should be using the actual gene ids rather than the microarray probe ids

We will move ahead with the release with the maizeGDB anatomy annotations (in SVN already), may need some minor fixing

There is increasing interest in the OBOEdit community to be able to include non-standard characters. JP will bring it up ont he next AmiGO development meeting

4. Other changes

• Japanese synonyms?

Will have Japanese synonyms in obo file, but JE will strip them out before the file gets loaded on AmiGO.

Japanese synonyms are not currently in the editors' file. Should be added. What is the status on this?

5. For more details see: Summary_of_Changes_to_PO_September_2011

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

• Pricing

Academic Package $1055

Graduate/PhD Student Package $880

Corporate Package $1340

Academic/Student No-Housing Package $720

Corporate No-Housing Package $905

DWS will be away, but RW could attend

PAG 2012

January 14-18, 2012, San Diego, California

Registration and Abstract submissions open on Sept 22nd

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

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

Other activities?

*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 

From the Instructions page: For authors wishing to submit to DATABASE for the 2012 BIOCURATION VIRTUAL ISSUE:

• Submission deadline: October 15, 2011
• First decisions: November 15, 2011
• Revisions deadline: December 15, 2011
• Final decisions: January 10, 2012
• Conference: April 2-4 2012

PJ planning to attend, LC and RW can go. Check with Pascal to confirm dates

Botany 2012

July 7 - 11, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio

Call for Symposia, Colloquia and Workshops:

Submission site now open

RW and DWS will look at putting in a proposal for a half day workshop.