POC Conf. Call 1-31-12

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Jan 31st, 2012 10am (PST)

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POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators: none

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Next PO Release

Goals and Priorities:

• First major revision of PSDS (formerly PGDSO) this is top priority

• Complete old user requests/SF tracker items this is top priority

• New association files: Physcomitrella, grape, potato (?)

• Fix dbxrefs for Fragaria annotations

• ABRC annotations to PO and TO terms These are descriptions of mutant phenotypes from Arabidopsis stock center, based on free text descriptions

• Links to images on PlantSystematics.org - Skype meeting with KN scheduled for 2:00/11:00 on Friday, October 21 PJ will confirm that he can make it on Friday. JE and JP can attend.

Collaborative projects:

• Mapping of Flora of North America Glossary to PO terms:

-What are the plans after this?

Once mappings are done, want to see how PO shows up in their data base. Show utility of PO for recovering descriptors from free text.

FNA is using natural language processing to map their descriptions to PO. We are starting with plant structures and later will add phenotype descriptors. We will start with leaf characters.

Will use PATO as it has terms available, and add PO terms as needed. Will also help show utility of PO to systematists.

-Others (These may be longer term than the next release):

• Leaf character ontology for Phenotype RCN? see notes above

• Linking ontology terms to character matrices using Morphobank?

Also need to work on providing PO in glossary form, to eventually replace APWeb Glossary. PJ has hired new grad student who will be working on this. This will be useful for users of APWeb Glossary who need a glossary, but don't want to use AmiGO browser. We could eventually incorporate other terms from APweb into PO if needed.

Timeline

We will have an interim release in December to add new data (data release). Have new data sets ready by December 15, so release can happen before holidays and is out in year 2011.

• Target date for finishing edits: late January

• Target date for release: February 15