POC Conf. Call 6-29-10

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: June 29th, 2010 10am (PDT)

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators:

Acceptance of the minutes from the 6-23-10 meeting? All in favor?

Workshop page: [Corvallis Workshop June 29th and 30th, 2010]

Agenda for June 29th Conference Call:

The main goals of the meeting will be ontology development and preparation for a release, along with focused training on annotating genes and mappings.

*Curators discussion: Determine priorities for next release of PO:

1. Date of next release? July 2010?

-What needs to be done before this release?

2. Is top level of Plant Structure ontology ready to go? -Review of top level terms

-Review of second level terms

-Should structures have part_of relations (to whole plant, sporophyte or gametophyte) whenever possible?

-Do we want to keep in vitro structures or send to OBI?

3. Status and goals for is_a completeness (Ramona can report)

- 136 terms without is_a parents

Based on definitions:

-73 of these terms have obvious parents (many of them some kind of portion of plant tissue)

-11 more terms could be assigned parents if new terms were created

-15 terms could be assinged parents with some consideration

-36 terms need discussion to determine parent terms (no obvious parent)

4. Should we aim to complete one branch of the ontology? For Example: leaves, in vitro terms or plant cells, specific type- axial cells for example hydroids and leptoids?

5. Changing lower-level terms to include cross products and genus-differentia definitions.

-How much can be done before release

6. Goals and timetable for the next release:

fall 2010?