Botany 2012 PO workshop planning page

This page is for internal use, for preparing for the PO workshop at the Botany 2012 meeting.

For a description of the workshop, see Plant Ontology Workshop, Botany 2012.

Topics

• Introductions of presenters and participants
  • determine participants' needs and interests
• Brief introduction to the principles and content of the PO.
• Tutorial on how to access the various resources available through the PO website:
  • how to navigate the website
  • how to interpret an ontology (including relations, definitions, and external references)
  • how to browse or search for ontology terms or annotations
  • how to submit feedback (including requests for new terms or revised definitions)
  • how to download and work with ontology and annotation files.
• Discussion of ontology terms and definitions
• Supplemental: Instruction will be available on how to generate association files for genomic projects interested in contributing and maintaining new PO annotations. Do we have any material available for this?

Agenda

This will be flexible, depending on participant's needs.

10:00 - 10:45 Hands-on tutorials

How to navigate the PO website:

• browse - tree view, graph view, icons, annotation data

Need to update images on browser users' guide: http://plantontology.org/amigo_user_guide/index.html#intro

• search - for terms, for annotations, advanced search

• downloading and working with files - ontology file and annotation file (only if people want to be able to do this)

Need to correct spelling mistake and remove DagEdit, put in links to OBOEdit: http://www.plantontology.org/download/svn_doc.html Developers guide

Need to fix download page: http://www.plantontology.org/download/download.html, but only if PJ allows us to get rid of the out of date tables. Otherwise, it is functional.

11:00 - 11:30 PO and images

• CUPAC images and PO terms
• SIA demonstration

11:30 - 11:50 Flexible time

Will continue hands-on tutorials if needed, or have a discussion of ontology terms