POC Conf. Call 3-27-12

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Mar 27th, 2012 10am PST/1pm EST

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators: none

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Upcoming PO Release:

Apache update:

JE has transferred all the html content on the web pages to the new Apache version and all seem to go smoothly.

There may be a few remaining link to :8080 addresses will have to be fixed. There are only about 30, and most of them seem to be links to wiki.plantontology.org.

People will need to update their bookmarks as well, if you have not already done so

Timeline:

• Target date for finishing edits: end of the day Thursday March 22st Most of the needed edits were completed on schedule.

We will review any additional loose ends and get them completed by hte end of the day today.

• Target date for release: Before March 30th

Goals and Priorities:

For more details see: New terms and obsolete terms-March 2012 Release

PO_Release_SOP_Page

After the release in October 2011, LC put together this page to help facilitate the releases

Everyone should review this list and let me know if there are things that need to be added, modified etc.

JE will make a corresponding document to outline the steps that is needed to be done from his end.

Revisions of PSDS (formerly PGDSO):

Status to 3-19-12

• ~34 new terms added
• many existing terms have been modified, eg changed all the 'phase' names to 'stage'
• all PSDS term names are now singular. Some still need to have "stage" appended
• focus has been on the whole plant development stage (PO:0007033) and its children
• Addition of Wood development stages: (See: SF tracker), started at the NYBG Workshop

New and Revised Terms for the PAE

• ~125 new terms for this release
• Addition of new terms and revisions to existing terms to encompass wood- see Goal_1._Anatomical_Entities
• Please see New terms and obsolete terms-March 2012 Release for a complete list
• Complete old user requests/SF tracker items: This is an ongoing process

New association files:

• Physcomitrella (released Jan 2012) -move out of "test folder"

• Small set of cotton annotations- -move out of "test folder"

• Updated annotations from SGN received

• RW will create an association file for the spruce tree genes that are referenced in the papers. This could be in a non-model plant association file.

Glossary of PO Anatomy terms

See PO Glossary on dev

• Currently links to the dev version of the ontology database, but on the live site it should read from the live version.

Translations

Status report:

• Ale is working on the Spanish translations and the list has been sent to Yukiko for her to fill in the Japanese ones.

icons for new relations

• New icon has been added for the has_participant relation so it can be included in the upcoming release.
• icons need to be stored in the folder on the SVN:

Remaining Ontology Things to be fixed

from the Items_for_future_meetings page

Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2012:

5th International Biocuration Conference

April 2-4, 2012, Washington DC

• Abstract was submitted and has been selected for a poster presentation.

See link: File:Abs Biocuration 2012 (LC 12-9-11).pdf

• LC is attending and is taking part in the BioCreative workshop

SPNHC 2012

Annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

Yale University, New Haven Connecticut June 11-16, 2012

Any interest in making a PO presentation at this meeting? Perhaps RW and/or DWS could just go for the day of the presentation, since it is local (New Haven, CT).

The theme for the meeting is "Emerging Technology and Innovation in Natural History Collections Management" (focus on the tools, innovative methods and collaborations that will move the natural history collections community forward).

From PJ: If we can show progress in the FNA work or Morphobank yes we should

Crop Ontology Workshop

For more information see the wiki page: Crop_Ontology_Workshop_at_OSU,_2012

We are looking at the tentative dates of either: June 11-13th or Aug 6th to 8th

The focus of the workshop will be on mostly development stages and traits for the crop plants

Ruth Bastow is contacting some of the interested people to see which of these dates work best.

Botany 2012

July 7 - 11, 2012 - Columbus, Ohio

• PO workshop for Sunday, July 8th

The organizer have listed it as a whole day workshop, but it is planned for a half day and will be changed on the schedule. Also need to correct link to abstract (currently goes to wrong abstract).

see: Botany 2012 workshops

Workshop goal will be to teach people (mostly botanists) how to access and use the PO, including how to send feedback, suggest new terms, etc.

PJ: suggest that we go there with a 'draft' version of the Plant Phenotype Ontology and show them how to use these in character matrices.

exhibitor's booth

We should also consider hosting an outreach booth.

Not a bad deal for non-profits: $500 for A 10 x 10 Booth Space at Botany 2012, and 2 complimentary registrations for the conference. (plus all the extras!)

• 2 months of Rotating Banner Ads in the online American Journal of Botany

• A Rotating Banner Ad in one edition of the online Plant Science Bulletin

• A Rotating Banner Ad on the Botany 2012 abstract submission site

• A Rotating Banner Ad on the 2012 Conference Registration site.

PJ will check with Gramene and Doreen Ware to see if they want to co-host a booth.

• Annotation wiki: JP may also give a talk on the new annotation wiki at this meeting, as part of the genomics section.

Bio-Ontologies SIG 2012

Where: July 13 - 14, 2012, Long Beach, CA. Co-located with ISMB 2012

When: Submissions Due: April 13th, 2012 (Fri)

See: Bio-Ontologies SIG 2012

Three types of submissions.

- Short papers, up to 4 pages. - Poster abstracts, up to 1 page. - Flash updates, up to 1 page

Successful papers will be presented at the Bio-Ontologies SIG.

Poster abstracts: time will be allocated during the 2 days for at least one poster session.

Flash updates are for short talks (5 min) giving the salient new developments on existing public ontologies. Authors of posters can also provide a flash update. Unsuccessful papers will automatically be considered for poster presentation.

ASPB Plant Biology 2012

July 20 - 24, 2012 - Plant Biology 2012, Austin, TX

Link to meeting page: ASPB2012

Abstract was submitted for submission for minisymposia consideration.

Joint workshop is planned with PO, Gramene and TAIR

Registration is open, early Bird Registration: by May 11

Advance Discounted: May 12-June 15

ICBO 2012

International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2012), July 22nd-25th, Graz, Austria

co-located with the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems (FOIS 2012)

RW and BS (with JE, AG, DWS and PJ) submitted a short paper describing a plant disease extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology. This paper was accepted and is being revised. Wiki page for notes on Plant Disease Ontology.

Relevant dates

• Feb. 28th, 2012: Notification of paper acceptance
• April 15th, 2012: Poster, early career symposium, software demonstrations and workshop papers submission deadline
• May 15th, 2012: Notification of poster, early career symposium, software demonstrations and workshop paper acceptance
• June 30th 2012: Deadline for all camera-ready copies for the proceedings

RW is working on an abstract summarizing the PO-FNA collaboration, with the folks from FNA. Will circulate soon. This will be either for a poster or a short talk in the Early Career Researcher session.

BS will be organizing an OBO Foundry meeting the afternoon of the day before the conference starts