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.

How to navigate the PO website:

browse - tree view, graph view, icons, annotation data
search - for terms, for annotations, advanced search
downloading and working with files - ontology file and annotation file (only if people want to be able to do this)

Will continue hands-on tutorials if needed, or have a discussion of ontology terms