POC Conf. Call 2-08-11
POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Feb 8th, 2011 10am (PST)
In attendance:
POC members:
Absent:
Collaborators:
Acceptance of the minutes from the POC Conf. Call 2-1-11?
Update on Progress of Publications
-TIPS: An abstract/proposal was submitted to Trends in Plant Science on Dec 31st, 2010. Unfortunately, it was declined. Need to think about another journal that would be appropriate for a short review/update type paper. Possibly add an example of an analysis using PO terms. Possible target journal: 'Current Opinions in Plant Biology'
-Plant Physiology: RW and LC are working on an outline for a manuscript to submit to Plant Physiology. This will be a more detailed description of the changes made to the PO in the past year, including restructuring of PSO and PGDSO. Will focus on how PO is now applicable to a wider range of plant species.
- Others? Maybe a short topics paper for American Journal of Botany?
While we were at PAG, DWS mentioned the editor of AJBOT wants him to put together a short paper for them- maybe can focus on PO?
This is also a requirement for OBO Foundry acceptance (see discussion below).
Action items:
Upcoming meetings 2011:
- Phenotype Ontology RCN Summit
February 25-27, 2010 at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, NC,
Laurel and Pankaj will be attending.
From RW: -What is official PO strategy for dealing with phenotypes?
-Should it differ between description of mutant phenotypes and descriptions needed for systematic studies?
-Should PO develop a list of terms to be submitted to PATO (rather than our current piecemeal suggestions)?
-Possible case study: description of inflorescence types.
* ICBO 2011 Second International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
July 26-30, 2011
Buffalo, New York
URL: icbo.buffalo.edu
CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: The deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals for the ICBO conference is February 1, 2011
We discussed the advantages of the PO organizing a workshop. LC will talk with PJ about it
BS suggested we might want to submit a short paper which could be published in longer form later
* International Botanical Congress (IBC2011)
July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia
Registration is open Important dates
Dennis and Alejandra are planning to attend IBC2011 and speak in other symposia.
Symposium proposal was accepted, 'Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences' under the genetics, genomics and bioinformatics theme.
Pankaj will give the introductory talk on general use of ontologies, GO, genomics, etc, and Ramona will present the talk on the Plant Ontology. Abstracts have been submitted.
No additional abstracts were submitted for our proposal, and Angelica does not think she will be able to attend because of lack of funds.
Dennis will speak in place of Angelica. PJ invited two other speakers. Gavin Kennedy will talk about the ontology application in large scale phenomics projects. Rudi Appels will speak on crop genomics and phenomics. Ramona has contacted these speakers to get their information and abstract; waiting for responses from them.
We received permission to use the 6th time slot for a discussion session. PJ will lead the discussion.
