POC Conf. Call 11-15-11

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Nov 15th, 2011 10am (PST)

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators: none

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PDSO revisions:

Plant structure development stages

We have some open user requests which are holding up the addition on annotations:

eg. Cotton seed hairs (trichomes) for AgBase (opened July 2010)

PDSO revisions: vegetative, reproductive and dormant stages

Continued from POC_Conf._Call_11-1-11 and POC_Conf._Call_11-8-11

We can efficiently deal with gametophyte and sporophyte together for these:

We agreed last week we did not need "development" in all the term names

gametophyte/sporophyte dormant stage

proposed def'ns:

sporophyte dormant stage (PO:0007132): A sporophyte development stage that occurs during the interval between the suspension of physiological activity and its reactivation.

gametophyte dormant stage (PO:0025342):A gametophyte development stage that occurs during the interval between the suspension of physiological activity and its reactivation.

We agreed to use dormant in the term name, and include 'dormancy" as a synonym. We need to review what occurs during dormancy- suspension of growth and cell division.

gametophyte/sporophyte vegetative stage (need tracker)

proposed def'n:

gametophyte vegetative stage(PO:000xxx): A gametophyte development stage that succeeds spore germination and ends with the formation of gametangia.

gametophyte/sporophyte reproductive stage (need tracker)

gametophyte reproductive stage(PO:000xxx): A gametophyte development stage that is initiated with the development of a gametangium and terminated with fertilization.

Comment: Some gametophytes may die before fertilization.

Collaborations

Wood anatomy and Forest Trees

Wood anatomy: PO will work with a group of scientists to develop ontology terms to describe wood anatomy.

From Jill Wegrzyn at UC Davis: The forest tree community (and in particular the conifers), are interested in collaborating with the Plant Ontology project to develop terms specific to our communities. I currently coordinate efforts on the TreeGenes database (http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu) and will be leading efforts to integrate ontologies into our existing database.

Three Goals:

• wood development and timecourse- formation
• terms for wood structure in the PAO
• Terms to describe wood quality and phenotype, traits

LC set up a wiki page to organize the Info for this meeting, see: Wood_Anatomy

An email was sent out to all the interested people asking for input on who to invite from our list of potential experts and on deciding where and when to do it. Waiting for replies....

Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2011/2012:

Plant Genomes & Biotechnology: From Genes to Networks, CSHL

Dates: November 30 - December 3, 2011

RW registered and submitted abstract (Media:PO_abstract_PGBatCSHL2011.pdf). This presentation should involve the larger analysis for the PO paper with the data from Physco and grape etc.

Will be a poster. Can also set up laptop in the poster room to give demo.

Sematic web conference focused on life science

JP will attend the SWAT4LS meeting in December. Folks such as TW from NCBO will be there.

PAG 2012

January 14-18, 2012, San Diego, California

PO will be represented at the following events:

• Ontology workshop, Saturday January 14th from 10:20am-12:30pm: Use of Ontologies for Organizing Plant and Animal Genomics Data. We have 5 speakers and time at the end for a panel discussion.

PJ will give the introductory remarks at the Ontology workshop, and hopefully take part in the Panel Discussion.

For more info, see the PAG 2012 Ontology workshop wiki page.

• LC is also presenting in the Non-Seed Plant Workshop on Saturday, Jan 14th, (3:50pm-6pm) and in the Plant Phenotypes workshop on Sunday, Jan. 15th, (8:00am - 10:10am).

• LC will also do a computer demo for the PO, unless one of the Justins is there and wants to do it.

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

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.

Maize Genetics Meeting, March 15-18, 2012

The maize meetings are being held in Portland, OR this year.

For more info see: Maize Genetics Meeting 2012

Registration Link: 2012 Maize Genetics Conference Registration Page will open on December 30, 2011.

Deadlines: Advance meeting registration is due by January 31, 2012.

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.

Annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections SPNHC 2012

Yale University, New Haven Connecticut June 11-16, 2012

Any interest in making a PO presentation at this meeting? Perhaps RW and/or DWS could just go for the day of the presentation, since it is local (New Haven, CT).

The theme for the meeting is "Emerging Technology and Innovation in Natural History Collections Management" (focus on the tools, innovative methods and collaborations that will move the natural history collections community forward).

From PJ: If we can show progress in the FNA work or Morphobank yes we should

Botany 2012

July 7 - 11, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio

Call for Symposia, Colloquia and Workshops:

RW, DWS and MAG 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.

Proposal was submitted, waiting for news.

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.

exhibitor's booth

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.

Annotation wiki

JP may also give a talk on the new annotation wiki at this meeting, as part of the genomics section.

ICBO 2012

International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2012)

co-located with the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems (FOIS 2012)

22-25 July 2012; Graz, Austria.

Conference Web site: http://purl.bioontology.org/ICBO/

We also have the opportunity to organize an anatomy workshop as well along with CM and MH- need to decide about this soon

BS will be organizing an OBO Foundry meeting the afternoon of the day before the conference starts.

Could also consider organizing a phenotype ontology workshop.

Relevant dates

31 December 2011: Workshop and tutorial proposal submission deadline

25 January 2012: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials

31 January 2012: Paper submission deadline

28 February 2012: Notification of paper acceptance

15 March 2012: Poster, early career symposium, software demonstrations and workshop papers submission deadline

15 April 2012: Notification of poster, early career symposium, software demonstrations and workshop paper acceptance

30 June 2012: Deadline for all camera-ready copies for the proceedings

We have until Jan. 31 to submit a paper. Do we want to try to prepare a manuscript for this?

Possible topics: finding commonality in development stages across the plant kingdom (revisions of PGDSO), plant phenotypes in ontologies, community driven annotation efforts (new application from JP and others), others?

BS would like to collaborate on a preliminary paper on Plant Disease Ontology. RW will review IDO and summarize what is there already for plants, what is needed, how it will link to PO. LC will also collaborate.