PRO-PO-GO Meeting

The goals of this meeting are to enhance coordination in ontology development and use in relation to plant genomics, proteomics and related fields. THe meeting is designed:

• 1. To inform members of the Protein, Plant and Gene Ontology communities of developments in each of these ontologies, and in related ontologies such as the CL (Cell), TO (Plant Trait), ENVO (Environment), PATO (Phenotype) and IDO-Plant (Plant Infectious Disease) ontologies, . Specifically:

a. To enhance the PO treatment of plant-related proteins

b. To address issues concerning reuse of GO terms to describe plant-related proteins, for example as concerns treatment of plant life cycle and development stages

• 2. To contribute to the creation of the cROP (Common Reference Ontologies for Plants) initiative
• 3. To contribute to the ontological understanding of phenotype in relation to disease in model organisms.
• 4. To identify potentially fruitful applications which enhanced ontology coordination might bring.

Participants will include:

PO Consortium

Laurel Cooper (Oregon)

Maria A. Gandolfo (Cornell)

Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon)

Barry Smith (Buffalo)

GO Consortium

Judith Blake (JAX)

Jane Lomax (EBI)

Chris Mungall (Berkeley)

PRO Consortium

Cathy Wu (Delaware)

Cecilia Arighi (Delaware)

Darren Natale (Georgetown)

Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)

Cell Ontology

Alex Diehl (Buffalo)

CHEBI

Janna Hastings (EBI, Geneva)

TAIR:

Tanya Berardini (Stanford)

• Sponsors

The Plant Ontology The Protein Ontology The National Center for Biomedical Ontology

For further information please contact | Barry Smith.