POC Conf. Call 7-12-11

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday July 12th, 2011 10am (PDT)

In attendance:

POC members: Absent:

Collaborators: none

Acceptance of the minutes from the POC_Conf._Call_7-05-11?

Tech Talk

A web service for PO terms

Justin Preece will demonstrate a prototype web service providing PO terms from the AmiGO database. This was originally built for his annotation wiki project, but could be expanded for general use and advertised as POC "technical outreach", to be consumed by other people's applications wanting to use PO data.

JP and JE propose to add such a web service to plantontology.org.

For those interested in some technical background info: see RESTful web services and JSON.

Update on the Translations:

details TBA...

Plant Physiology Publication

Any updates?

User requests: PGDSO:

postponed until a future meeting

Upcoming meetings 2011:

• Botany 2011 Meeting [Botany 2011] St. Louis, MO at the Chase Park Plaza, July 9-13.

Societies participating: Society for Economic Botany, the American Fern Society (AFS), the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT), and the Botanical Society of America (BSA).

DWS is attending, but will not present. Many people from the BSA will be at the IBC meeting in Melbourne.

• ICBO 2011 Second International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

July 26-30, 2011 Buffalo, New York ICBO

-LC will present the Plant Ontology on Thursday, July 28th, 3:40pm in the session: "Introduction to The OBO Foundry Initiative":

Also presenting will be: The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations,the Ontology for General Medical Sciences and the Infectious Disease Ontology. Link: ICBO Program

July 27 8.30am-4pm: LC is co-organizing the workshop "From Fins to Limbs to Leaves: Facilitating Anatomy Ontology Interoperability along with Melissa Haendel, Chris Mungall, Alan Ruttenberg, David Osumi-Sutherland.

• Plant Biology 2011, Aug 6-10th, Minneapolis, Minn

Plant Biology 2011

Gramene and Plant Ontology are hosting a [Data Curation Workshop] again, focusing on pathway curations.

LC and PJ will present a PO poster.

TAIR (Kate Dreher) is organizing an Plant_Biology_2011_Outreach_Booth and we are invited to take part. We are hosting the website.

• International Botanical Congress (IBC2011)

July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia

Registration is open Important dates

Symposium 'Bio-Ontologies for the Plant Sciences' under the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics theme, will be held on Thursday, 27 July, from 1:30pm to 3:30pm.

Dennis, Alejandra, Pankaj and Ramona are planning to attend.

See IBC 2011 Bio-Ontologies Symposium wiki page for more details

• POC Meeting at New York Botanic Garden Tentative dates, Sept 9th-11th, 2011

DWS will look into booking the apartments at the NYBG for accommodations

More details TBA....