PRO-PO-GO Meeting

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 and 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 creation of the cROP (Common Reference Ontologies for Plants) initiative
• 3. To contribute to the ontological understanding of phenotype in relation to disease in model organisms.
• 4. To identify potentially fruitful applications which enhanced ontology coordination might bring.

Participants will include:

• PO Consortium members: Laurel Cooper (Oregon), Maria A. Gandolfo (Cornell), Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon), Barry Smith (Buffalo)
• GO Consortium members: Judith Blake (JAX), Jane Lomax (EBI), Chris Mungall (Berkeley)
• PRO Consortium members: Cathy Wu (Delaware), Cecilia Arighi (Delaware), Darren Natale (Georgetown), Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo),
• CL: Alex Diehl (Buffalo)
• CHEBI: Janna Hastings (EBI, Geneva)
• TAIR: Tanya Berardini (Stanford)

Sponsors: The Plant Ontology, the Protein Ontology.

For further information please contact | Barry Smith.