May 2nd, 2017 Ontology Working Group Meeting

Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting

• Date: Tuesday May 2nd, 2017
• Time: 8:15am PDT (GMT-7)

• Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/417836474
• Meeting Recordings:
  • File:Ontology WG Meeting audio 5-2-17.m4a
  • File:Ontology WG Meeting video 5-2-17.mp4

Agenda

Planteome Noctua

• In preparation for the Noctua workshop on June 4th, we will review the current version of the Planteome Noctua and test out features and functionalities.
• Demo and test of Planteome Noctua instance: http://noctua-dev.planteome.org/
  • Link to Planteome Noctua SOP (In progress)

• Items mentioned during call:
  • Need list of people attending as they need to be added to the users.yaml file?
  • CM will give an overview and intro
  • Will use the Planteome version for demo, and annotate example from plants
  • Need to include agro and EO
  • Attendees should be given a couple of papers before hand to read- specifc pathways
  • Justin will work on creating an OBO file with gene names for rice and Arabidopsis

Updates

• Luke and George:
  • Development of AberOwl: http://aber-owl.net
    • [Slater et al, Journal of Biomedical Semantics (2016)]
  • provides automated reasoning-based access to all accessible and consistent ontologies in BioPortal

• Ontology of Plant Stress (AM)- tabled for next meeting

Current work going on in PO

Link to pedicel document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GeMKf0s-M58355hakqeN7Aaf72kHvGaTubfwOh9Pf9o/edit?usp=sharing

Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

2017 Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting, June 1-5th, 2017, Corvallis

• GO Meeting Corvallis
• Registration
• Travel plans

• Dates: June 1-5, 2017 (Details)
  • Arrive (May 31) View travel directions
  • GOC meeting (June 1-3)
  • Noctua gene annotation jamboree (June 4)
  • Reactome Pathway curation jamboree (June 5)
  • Depart (June 5 late evening / June 6 anytime)

Plant Biology 2017, June 24th-28th, Honolulu, Hawaii

• Links: http://plantbiology.aspb.org/

• Important deadlines:
  • May 24, 2017: Deadline for submission of abstracts to be included in the online program book and to receive a poster number.
  • May 27, 2017: Deadline for discount hotel rates. (Please note: Our discounted room block may fill up long before this deadline.)
  • June 12, 2017: Final deadline for Plant Biology 2017 abstract submissions.
  • June 12, 2017: Deadline for standard registration rates for Plant Biology 2017 and iMOSS 2017.
  • June 24–28, 2017: Onsite registration during Plant Biology 2017!

XIX International Botanical Congress, July 23-29, 2017, Shenzhen, China

• Workshop proposal accepted-

• T5-06:Ontologizing botanical knowledge (two sessions)
  • Organizer: Hong Cui (University of Arizona, USA)
  • James Macklin (Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, Canada)
  • Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA)

• T5-18: Bioinformatics resources for comparative functional and phylogenetic analysis of plant genomes, pathways and diversity
  • Organizer: Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Sushma Naithani (Oregon State University, USA)

• Deadline for the abstract submission for oral presentations has been extended for 39 of the 212 general symposia where one or a few speaker slots are available
• New deadline: February 15, 2017 for those 39 symposia and for posters only

• Abstract submitted?

ICBO 2017, Sept 12th-15th, 2017

• Newcastle, GB
• http://icbo.buffalo.edu/
• Important dates:
  • Mar 29, 2017: Workshops and tutorials proposals submission deadline
  • Apr 19, 2017: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials
  • Jun 02, 2017: Paper and Poster Deadline
  • Jun 16, 2017: Paper Reviews Due