Wood anatomy ontology meeting, 2012 at NYBG, agenda

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Tentative dates: 5-7 February, 2012 (Sunday through Tuesday)

Location: Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Conference Room, Pfizer Laboratory, New York Botanical Garden

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Attendees

From the Plant Ontology Consortium:

  • Dennis Stevenson, Vice President for Laboratory Research, New York Botanical Garden
  • Ramona Walls, Post-doctoral researcher and Plant Ontology curator, New York Botanical Garden
  • Maria Alejandra Gandolfo, Cornell University
  • Laurel Cooper, PO Project Coordinator and Curator, Oregon State University (tentative)

Co-organizers:

Invited attendees:

(*confirmed)

Meeting Goals

1. Develop ontology terms and definitions for wood structure, as part of the Plant Anatomical Entity branch of the Plant Ontology.

2. Develop ontology terms and definitions the time course of development of wood, as part of the Plant Structure Development Stage branch of the Plant Ontology.

3. Develop ontology terms and definitions, as well as ontology structure, for wood qualities and phenotypes, as an extension of the Plant Ontology and other ontologies, such as the Trait Ontology (TO) and Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO, formerly the Phenotype and Trait Ontology).

By the end of the meeting, we will have list of terms for these three areas (anatomy, development stages, qualities), plus proposed definitions, and a good idea of how the terms will fit into the PO.

Agenda, Day 1

9AM-9:30AM Introductions (D. Stevenson and whole group)

9:30AM-12:30PM Introduction to Bio-ontologies - Public Session

This session will be open to people outside the meeting participants, and will be advertised to the wider scientific community.

Introduction to Bio-ontologies (B. Smith)

Barry Smith, an ontology expert and consultant to the PO, will provide an introduction to ontologies for the life sciences.

1. What is an ontology and what is it for?

2. Ontology success stories in the life sciences

3. The bio-ontologies landscape

  • Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry
  • National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and its Bioportal
  • Ontologies and the Semantic Web

4. How to build your first ontology

-with illustrations from the Plant Ontology

  • definitions and cross-products
  • relations
  • types and instances
  • use of OBO-Edit and Protege

Introduction to the Plant Ontology (R. Walls)

1. Organization of the PO

  • the two main branches of the PO: plant anatomical entity and plant structure development stage

2. Relations in the PO

  • is_a: the most basic relation, type-subtype
  • part_of: what it means for anatomical entities versus development stages
  • has_part: why use this instead of part_of
  • develops_from
  • derives_by_manipulation_from: used for in vitro plant structures
  • adjacent_to
  • participates_in and has_participant: links between anatomical entities and development stages

3. Definitions in the PO

  • genus-differentia definitions - importance of reading up the tree for properties of a term
  • logical definitions and relations
  • definitions for humans and computers

4. Comparison of relevent ontologies for plants: PO, TO, and PATO

Plant Ontology (PO), Trait Ontology (TO), and Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO)

  • Domains of each ontology
  • How do they differ? How are they similar? How do they interact?
  • What is a trait? What is a quality?
  • The difference between an entity and a phenotype

5. PO association data

12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch

1:30PM-2:30PM Overview of the goals for the meeting

Setting goals

The following goals were established prior to this meeting:

1. Develop ontology terms and definitions for wood structure, as part of the Plant Anatomical Entity branch of the Plant Ontology.

-In addition to working on the terms used to describe wood, we can review the needs for other anatomy terms for woody plants that may not be in PO (e.g., reproductive structures in gymnosperms).

2. Develop ontology terms and definitions the time course of development of wood, as part of the Plant Structure Development Stage branch of the Plant Ontology.

-If necessary, we can also make suggestions for developmental processes in the Gene Ontology.

3. Develop ontology terms and definitions, as well as ontology structure, for wood qualities and phenotypes, as an extension of the Plant Ontology and other ontologies, such as the Trait Ontology (TO) and Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO, formerly the Phenotype and Trait Ontology). What they are and how we expect to meet them.

What are users ontology needs?

Achieving our goals

2:30PM-5:30PM Work on goal 1

Goal 1. Develop ontology terms and definitions for wood structure, as part of the Plant Anatomical Entity branch of the Plant Ontology.

review existing terms and definitions

develop list of terms that are missing

work on definitions of new terms

Agenda, Day 2

Work on goal 2 - Development stages

2. Develop ontology terms and definitions for the time course of development of wood, as part of the Plant Structure Development Stage branch of the Plant Ontology.

-If necessary, we can also make suggestions for developmental processes in the Gene Ontology.

Work on goal 3

3. Develop ontology terms and definitions, as well as ontology structure, for wood qualities and phenotypes, as an extension of the Plant Ontology and other ontologies, such as the Trait Ontology (TO) and Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO, formerly the Phenotype and Trait Ontology).

Background

Unlike goals 1 and 2, this goal goes beyond the current domain of the PO.

Ontological descriptions of plant qualities and phenotypes

The E-Q statement.

What is a cross-product?

Work on list of terms needed

Existing glossaries as sources of terms

IAWA glossaries

Others

User needs

How will quality/phenotype terms be used?

Creating a separate "Wood Quality Ontology" versus describing phenotype son the fly using cross products.

Agenda, Day 3

Review ontology structure from days 1 and 2

Incorporating new annotations for woody plants

Linking to TreeGenes and other databases.

Create a woody anatomy slim?

Action items

What still needs to be done?

Who will do what?