POC Conf. Call 1-11-11

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Jan 11th, 2011 10am (PST)

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators:

Acceptance of the minutes from the POC Conf. Call 1-4-11?

*Timeline and Plan for Upcoming Release:

- We completed all the changes discussed last week, and the merged plant_ontology.obo file was loaded on the *Beta* browser (Thanks Justin E!)

• Internal review before full release:

- Annotations that need to be moved:

- List of changes: Summary_of_Changes_to_PO_Jan2011 (still under construction)

-see also Jan 2011_Release_Page

List of things to fix:

• Beta browser is working, so everyone in the group should go over file before the release.

DWS commented that we should review what we planned to do in the original grant proposal, and make sure we are not forgetting anything. All agreed it was a good idea and we will put it on the agenda for next time.

TIPS proposal

An abstract/proposal was been submitted to Trends in Plant Science on Dec 31st, 2010. It was sent out to everyone by email. Any news??

Upcoming meetings 2011:

• Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference January 15-19, 2011 PAG 2011

Laurel, Ramona, DWS and Justin Preece are attending. PJ will attend for the weekend only as he is teaching. Alejandra cannot attend.

PO Activities at PAG:

• Computer Demonstration: Ramona will present.

Saturday - Early Afternoon, January 15, 2011 -- 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm (third in series of seven)

Outline for PAG2011 Computer Demo

• Plant Phenotypes workshop and panel discussion: Laurel will present.

" The Plant Ontology: Linking phenotypes and genomics across plant taxa"

Sunday Morning, 16 January 2011 -- 8:00 am - 10:10 am

• PAG_2011_Collaborators_Workshop and meeting with collaborators

Sunday Late Morning:

Time: 10:30-1:00 pm (to include lunch, will wrap up in time to get to 1:30 sessions)

PO Workshop Reg'n site and Survey

• Poster: PO Poster Monday 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

• Outreach Booth being organized by MaizeGBD- More info TBA

• Phenotype Ontology RCN Summit

The Phenotype Ontology RCN

February 25-27, 2010 at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, NC,

Laurel and Pankaj will be attending.

* International Botanical Congress (IBC2011)

July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia

Registration is open Important dates

Dennis and Alejandra are planning to attend IBC2011 and speak in other symposia.

Symposium proposal was accepted, 'Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences' under the genetics, genomics and bioinformatics theme.

Pankaj will give the introductory talk on general use of ontologies, GO, genomics, etc, and Ramona will present the talk on the Plant Ontology. Abstracts have been submitted.

No additional abstracts were submitted for our proposal, and Angelica does not think she will be able to attend because of lack of funds.

Dennis will speak in place of Angelica. PJ invited two other speakers. Gavin Kennedy will talk about the ontology application in large scale phenomics projects. Rudi Appels will speak on crop genomics and phenomics. Ramona has contacted these speakers to get their information and abstract; waiting for responses from them.

We received permission to use the 6th time slot for a discussion session. PJ will lead the discussion.