PRO-PO-GO Meeting

Venue: Ramada Inn, Amherst, NY 14221

Date: May 15-16, 2013

Goals

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, 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 cROP (Common Reference Ontologies for Plants) initiative
• 3. To contribute to the ontological understanding of phenotype and disease in all 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)

Arabidopsis Information Portal

Christopher D. Town (J. Craig Venter Institute)

The iPlant Collaborative

Ramona Walls

TAIR

Tanya Berardini (Stanford)

Eva Huala (Stanford)

Other participants:

Alexander Cox (Buffalo)

A limited number of places are available for additional participants. Please contact Barry Smith for further information.

Sponsors

The Plant Ontology

The Protein Ontology

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology