POC Conf. Call 9-25-12
POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Sept 25th, 2012 10am PDT/1pm EDT
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POC members:
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Collaborators: none
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Recent Meeting reports
NSF Plant Genome PIs Meeting
Arlington, VA, September 6-7, 2012
PJ presented a 2 pager and poster
Genome Informatics 2012
September 6th-9th Robinson College, Cambridge, UK
JP attended and submitted a poster representing the PO
PO/TO Crop Annotation Workshop at OSU; Sept. 13-15th, 2012
For more information see the wiki page: Plant_Ontology_and_Crop_Annotation_Workshop_OSU_2012
Crop Plant Trait Ontology Workshop OSU, Sept. 13-15th, 2012
The Plant Ontology and the Trait Ontology, along with EBI/TransPlant, GARNet (BBSRC) and the Generation Challenge Program hosted the Crop Plant Trait Ontology Workshop from September 13th-15th 2012 at Oregon State University. Co-organized with representatives from SGN, SOYbase, maizeGDB and many other groups.
Plant breeders, biologists and bioinformatics specialists from ten countries, seven US states and representatives from two plant agribusinesses- Syngenta and Monsanto, gathered in Corvallis for a workshop on the latest developments in and broad discussion of the need for a coordinated effort to develop and extend the plant and trait ontologies to describe the anatomy and traits of agronomic importance to major crops cultivated world wide.
The goal of this workshop was to widen the awareness and participation of the plant breeding community in the use of ontologies, and to create a semantic framework for meaningful cross-species queries using a common reference ontology for plants.
Guest speakers Melissa Haendel; (Ontology Development Group, OHSU Library and Barry Smith (OBO Foundry)....
Participants engaged in hands-on activities, learning to use the ontology editor OBO-Edit and working in small groups to classify plant trait term requests which had been submitted.
Update from Cornell
Added 25 more slides and 500 more images to the CUPAC database
MAG and RW started adding keywords last week, and came up with a way to add PO's to all the images then link them to the PO pages, but it will probably be a few weeks before Kevin is able to implement the links.
Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2012-2013:
Phenotype RCN meeting, Oct 26-29th 2012
Asilomar, CA
PAG 2013, San Diego, CA; January 12-16, 2013
- Date and Time: Saturday, January 12, 2013: 08:00 AM - 10:10 AM, Royal Palm Salon 5-6
We will be running a workshop focusing on:
Applications of Ontologies for Plant and Animal Genomics
Need suggestions for speakers.
PJ: Suggestions- someone from GO in Berkeley, Nigam Shaw
- Can we offer something to entice the speakers, in addition to the $100 discount on registration offered by the conference?
- Need to submit list of speakers by November 1, 2012.
PJ will check with DW about Gramene involvement
Deadline for computer demo- Nov 1st
PRO-PO-GO meeting, ~May 2013
Location: Buffalo, NY
Goals:
- To educate members of the PRO, PO and GO communities concerning developments in each of the three ontologies, with a view to enhanced coordination
- To identify potentially fruitful applications which such enhanced coordination might bring
- To enhance the Protein Ontology treatment of plant-related proteins
- To address coordination issues between the GO and PO, for example as concerns treatment of development stages
- To further those aspects of CROP which relate to PRO and GO [this is assuming that PRO is included as one of the external ontologies in CROP]
Tentative participant list:
PO Consortium members: Pankaj Jaiswal and Laurel Cooper (OSU), Dennis Stevenson (NYBG), Barry Smith (Buffalo), others?
GO Consortium members: Jane Lomax (EBI), Judith Blake (JAX), Alex Diehl (Buffalo) who else?
PRO Consortium members: Cathy Wu, Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
