This page is for internal use, for preparing for the PO workshop at the Botany 2012 meeting.

For a description of the workshop, see Plant Ontology Workshop, Botany 2012.

Topics

Introductions of presenters and participants
- determine participants' needs and interests
Brief introduction to the principles and content of the PO.
Tutorial on how to access the various resources available through the PO website:
- how to navigate the website
- how to interpret an ontology (including relations, definitions, and external references
- how to browse or search for ontology terms or annotations
- how to submit feedback (including requests for new terms or revised definitions)
- how to download and work with ontology and annotation files.
Discussion of ontology terms and definitions
Supplemental: Instruction will be available on how to generate association files for genomic projects interested in contributing and maintaining new PO annotations.

Agenda

This will be flexible, depending on participant's needs.

9:00 - 9:30 Introductions and assessing needs and interests of participants

9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to ontologies and to the PO

10:00 - 10:30 Hands-on tutorials

10:30 - 10:45 Break and re-assessment of needs

10:45 - 11:30 Hands-on tutorials

11:30 - 11:50 Discussion of ontology terms

11:50 - 12:00 Wrap up