PRO-PO-GO Meeting
PRO-PO-GO: Challenges of Ontology Coordination Across Organisms
A meeting designed to promote the coordination of the Gene, Protein, and Plant Ontologies and of other reference ontologies used in plant biology
Venue: Ramada Inn, Amherst, NY 14221
Date: May 15-16, 2013. The meeting will start at 10am on May 15 and conclude at 4pm on May 16.
Goals
The goals of this meeting are:
- 1. to inform members of the Protein, Plant, Gene Ontology and related communities of developments in their respective ontologies in order to promote cross-ontology coordination. Specifically:
- a. to enhance the PO treatment of plant-related proteins
- b. to address issues concerning reuse of GO terms to describe plant-related proteins, for example as concerns treatment of plant life cycle and development stages
- 2. to address general issues which arise when ontologies need to be extended to cover multiple model organisms
- 3. to contribute to the cROP (Common Reference Ontologies for Plants) initiative
- 4. To contribute to the ontological understanding of phenotype and disease in all model organisms.
- 5. to identify potentially fruitful applications which enhanced ontology coordination might bring.
Draft Schedule
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
10:00 From the OBO Foundry to cROP
- Outline of the cROP Framework (Pankaj Jaiswal)
Overview of Ontologies including Examples of Applications
- General Ontologies within the cROP Framework: CHEBI, CL, GO, PATO, PCO, PRO
12:30 Lunch
13:30 The Coordinating Role of the Gene Ontology: Discussion led by Jane Lomax (EBI)
- Questions to be addressed include:
- How does the GO view the division of labor with regard to describing Biological Processes (BPs) which are not within the scope of the GO BP ontology especially in regard to stage ontologies such as the cell life cycle ontology or the PO plant development stage ontology.
15:00 Break
15:30 Phenotype and Disease in Model Organism
- Defining Disease
- Introduction to the Plant Disease Ontology and to the Plant Infectious Disease Ontology
- Introduction to TO
- Relations between PATO and TO
18:00 Working Dinner
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
9:00 The Coordinating Role of the Protein Ontology
- PRO and Model Organism Research: Maintaining Ontologies Across Multiple Species
- PRO and UniProt
11:00 cROP Ontologies as Annotation Resources for New Plant Genomes
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Documenting Success Stories in Application of Annotated Genome Data
- Diversity research (Inter-Species)
- Discovering similarities and dissimilarities within organisms (Intra-Species)
- Identification of species for forensic purposes
- What are the structures involved in given biological processes (for example pollination)?
- What are the biological processes involved in phenomena such as disease)?
Participants will include:
PO Consortium
- Laurel Cooper (Oregon)
- Maria A. Gandolfo (Cornell)
- Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon)
- Barry Smith (Buffalo)
- Dennis Wm. Stevenson (New York Botanical Gardens)
GO Consortium
- Judith Blake (JAX)
- Jane Lomax (EBI)
- Chris Mungall (Berkeley)
PRO Consortium
- Cathy Wu (Delaware)
- Cecilia Arighi (Delaware)
- Darren Natale (Georgetown)
- Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
Cell Ontology
- Alex Diehl (Buffalo)
BFO
- Stefan Schulz (Graz)
- Selja Seppälä (Buffalo)
UniProt
- Claire O'Donovan (EBI)
- Maria Martin (EBI)
CHEBI
- Janna Hastings (EBI, Geneva)
Arabidopsis Information Portal
- Christopher D. Town (J. Craig Venter Institute)
The iPlant Collaborative
- Ramona Walls
TAIR
- Tanya Berardini (Stanford)
- Eva Huala (Stanford)
Other participants:
- Alexander Cox (Buffalo)
- William Hogan (Arkansas)
- Mark Jensen (Buffalo)
A limited number of places are available for additional participants. Please contact Barry Smith for further information.
Note that this meeting is co-located with the BFO 2.0 meeting, which will take place in Buffalo on May 13-14:
http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/2013_BFO_Meeting
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