Wood anatomy ontology meeting, 2012 at NYBG, agenda

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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

Invited attendees:

Lodging and Transportation

Guests will be staying at the Hamptom Inn and Suites, in Yonkers, NY, approximately 15 minutes from the NYBG. Transportation to and from the hotel will be provided by van service or private cars.

The PO will arrange a car service from the airport to the hotel using PondField Car Service. We do not recommend using taxis.

Weather

It will be cool, with highs is the low 40's. There may be rain or snow flurries on Monday.

Please bring a sweater or jacket, as the conference room can be quite cold.

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, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2011

9:00AM-12:00PM 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.

If you are interested in attending this session, please contact Ramona Walls by February 1, 2012.

Link to the meeting announcment.

9AM-9:15AM Welcome and Introductions (Dennis Stevenson)

9:15AM-11:00AM Introduction to Bio-ontologies (Barry Smith)

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

See link to NCBO page

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

11:00AM-11:15AM Coffee break

11:15AM-12:00PM Introduction to the Plant Ontology (Ramona Walls)

1. What is the Plant Ontology and what is it for?

2. How the Plant Ontology is structured: anatomy and development stages

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

3. Plant Ontology relations and definitions

Relations:

  • Types and subtypes: is_a, the fundamental relation in the PO
  • Parts: part_of and has_part; what they means for anatomical entities (things) versus development stages (processes); when to use has_part instead of part_of
  • Development and derivation: the develops_from and derives_by_manipulation_from relations
  • Specifying spatial relations: adjacent_to, part_of, and other relations
  • Links between anatomical entities and development stages: the participates_in and has_participant relations

Definitions:

  • Definitions for humans and computers
  • Genus-differentia definitions - importance of reading up the tree for properties of a term
  • Logical definitions and relations

4. Neighboring ontologies of the PO: Traits (TO) and Phenotypes (PATO)

  • Domains of Trait Ontology (TO), and Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO), versus the PO
  • How do they differ? How are they similar? How do they interact?
  • The difference between an entity and a phenotype
  • What is a trait? What is a quality?

5. Different types of plant data made available through the Plant Ontology

  • Linking genomic and phenomic data to PO terms
  • Example: mapping maize tissue samples to PO terms
  • How annotation files are created and maintained; responsibilities of the PO versus contributing databases.

12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch

Lunch at the Garden Cafe

1:00PM-2:00PM Overview of the goals for the meeting

Review of 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.

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).

What are users' needs?

-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).

Achieving our goals

At the meeting, we will develop lists of new terms and revisions to existing terms that are needed, and begin work on definitions and relations for these terms.

At the end of the meeting, we will assess our progress, and create a list of tasks to be completed, plus a timeline.

All participants will set up an account to access our SourceForge tracker. This will allow us to continue to work on new terms and definitions after the workshop.

Feedback after this meeting

Interactive demo on how to:

2:00PM-2:45PM Flash talks by participants

5 minutes per person. A computer and projector will be available if anyone wants to use them. Talks should be no more than 8 slides, but slides are not required.

2:45PM-3:00PM Coffee Break

3:00PM-6:00PM Work on goal 1 - Anatomical Entities

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

  • review existing anatomy/morphology terms and definitions
  • develop list of anatomy/morphology terms that are missing
  • work on definitions of new terms

See separate page, Goal 1. Anatomical Entities, for more details.

7:00PM-9:00PM Dinner at Gianna's

Transportation back to the hotel will be arranged.

Gianna's is an Italian restaurant, located a few blocks from the hotel in Yonkers.

Agenda, Monday, Feb. 6, 2011

9:00AM-12:00PM Work on goal 2 - Development stages

Goal 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

  • review existing development stage terms and definitions
  • develop list of development stage terms that are missing
  • work on definitions of new terms

See separate page, Goal 2. Plant Structure Development Stages, for more details.

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


There will be time for a coffee break in the middle of the morning.

12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch

NYBG is closed on Mondays. We will order in lunch from a local deli.

1:00PM-2:00PM Continue work on goal 2

3:00PM-6:00PM Work on goal 3 - Qualities and Phenotypes

Goal 3. Develop ontology terms and definitions, as well as ontology structure, for wood qualities and phenotypes.

  • 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 on PO, TO, PATO
  • How to describe qualities using ontologies
  • Resources for terms

See separate page, Goal 3. Wood qualities and phenotypes, for more details.


There will be time for a coffee break in the middle of the afternoon.

6:00-8:30 Working dinner and evening session at NYBG

We will order in dinner.

Developing and incorporating new annotations for woody plants

Presentation by Laurel Cooper

Links between PO and other databases

e.g., TreeGenes, others?

Agenda, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2011

9:00AM-10:00AM Review ontology structure from days 1 and 2

Review of any unfinished items from goals 1-3.

10:00AM-11:00AM Break-out groups

Possible topics:

  • Tuturial on how to use OBOEdit
  • Creating a woody anatomy slim
  • Creating PO annotations
  • Other unforseen items

11:00AM-12:00PM Wrap up

Action items:

  • What still needs to be done?
  • Who will do what?