POC Conf. Call 2-14-12

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Feb 14th, 2012 10am (PST)

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POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators: none

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Upcoming PO Release:

In October, we had planned the next release for Feb 2012:

POC_Conf._Call_10-18-11#Next_PO_Release

Goals and Priorities:

• First major Revisions of PSDS (formerly PGDSO):

Status to 1-30-11:

-22 new terms added, many existing terms have been modified, eg changed all the 'phase' names to 'stage'

-most of the recent work has been on the whole plant development stage (PO:0007033) and its children

-will be working on wood development at the NYBG next week

• Complete old user requests/SF tracker items:

- This is an ongoing process, we have added about 50 new PAE terms recently

• 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 - Update?

• New association files: Physcomitrella (released Jan 2012), small set of cotton annotations, others?

Timeline:

• Target date for finishing edits:

• Target date for release:

Collaborative projects:

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

RW: We now have id's for FNA terms. Can finish adding synonyms before this release, and probably mapping file for existing 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.