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=Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2015=
'''* [[Ontology Working Group meeting: Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2015]]'''
Who: PJ, EA, LC, JE, CM, BS
* Meetings will be held using Zoom (https://www.zoom.us/) - we are in the process of getting it set up
* Wiki is set up and notes will be kept here, need to login to access


== 1. Coordination between the species-specific Crop Ontologies and the reference ontologies- PO, TO, GO etc==
'''* [[Ontology Working Group Meeting Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2015]]'''
PJ: Initial goal will be to work on improving and updating the TO


EA provided an overview of the Crop Ontology curation tool (http://www.cropontology.org/) and some background information about the ontologies and platform.
'''* [[Ontology Working Group Meeting Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2015]]'''


Long term goal is to integrate the CO vocabularies with the reference ontologies.
Back to the [[Planteome_Ontology_Development_and_Coordination_Working_Group]] page
* Part of the Integrated Breeding Platform
* Common vocabularies are used to integrate data from breeders field book
* Was started as part of the Generation Challenge Program (GCP), which has run out of funding.  The GCP Pantheon webiste (http://pantheon.generationcp.org/index.php) will be shut down soon and so that information needs to be moved somewhere else. Could perhaps go the the [http://genesys.cgxchange.org/gcp-crop-ontology GCP Wiki] page? 
 
* 18 crops (http://www.cropontology.org/) represented in five sections:
** General Germplasm Ontology
** Phenotype and Trait Ontology
** Structural and Functional Genomic Ontology
** Location and Environmental Ontology
** Plant Anatomy & Development Ontology
 
Cassava Example: http://www.cropontology.org/ontology/CO_334/Cassava
* Based on OBO-Edit
* Excel-based template
* Visualized by the tool
 
Common Trait Classes (e.g.) : Maize Ontology (http://www.cropontology.org/ontology/CO_322/Maize)
* "Agronomic/Agronomical"
* Morphological
* Stress (Abiotic/Biotic Stresses)
* Phenological
* Quality
* Unit
 
Relations:
* is_a
* part _of
* method_of
* scale _of
* derived_from
 
Availability and Formats:
* Download from www.cropontology.org
* API- http://www.cropontology.org/api
* make 'Permalink' to individual terms pages
* Formats include csv, OBO, SKOS, RDF, Trait Template v4
* Ones in blue are OBO based
* Terms are translated into various languages, as synonyms
 
Terms have a unique identifier:
* CO_###:#######
 
===Questions and Discussion: ===
* Goal is to keep the web-based tool for user access, in some form.
* Database behind it is No-SQL based
* Integration with future versions of Term Genie
* We will need a technical call as we we move towards integration at GitHub
* The Trait Ontology is not displayed here as it was confusing to the users. 
* Identified an issue where curators/users can upload an ontology without any quality control.
 
==2. Prioritizing the work on the species-specific Crop Ontologies- Rice, Wheat and Maize==
* At the PAG meeting- Rice, wheat and Maize were identified as the best candidates to start on
* The PO is well set up to provide entity terms for these as they are important crop/model species
* The TO has some of the needed terms, but will need additional work
 
''Fill in some details of the Rice, Wheat and Maize vocabs here:''
 
==3. Transition to GitHub Repository==
[https://github.com/Planteome Planteome Ontologies on GitHub]
* This will be very useful for editting and versioning, then the relased version can be pushed out to Crop Ontology site
 
==4. Hiring at Bioversity, OSU and NYBG==
* Bioversity Curator position is advertised on the [http://www.bioversityinternational.org/jobs/ Bioversity Jobs page]:
You can view it here: [https://hr4u.bioversity.cgiar.org/recruitment/Attachments%5CVA_Post%20Doc_CropOntology_NSF_MPL_Final.pdf Position Description: Post Doctoral Fellow, Crop Ontology, MPL]
 
* Ontology Curator Position at OSU: In progress....
 
 
* Ontology Curator Position at NYBG: In progress....
 
==5.  Possible Ontology development workshop this spring==
Time is quite short, maybe consider a web-conferencing strategy to start, new people are being added to project at OSU, NYBG, CO
 
==6.  White paper on plant phenotyping standards==
See details on [http://wiki.planteome.org/index.php/Thursday_Feb_6th,_2015#F._Position_Paper_or_.22White_Paper.22 All Hands Call Feb 6th]
 
 
=Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2015=
Who: PJ, LC, CM,
 
==1. Discussion of the GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Planteome==
 
* Intro to the GitHub- site for the Planteome
** Procedure will be to do a check out.  Two-step commit process: make changes and then commit locally, then do a "push" to synchronize with the server version. 
** Branching: It is different than forking
 
* What is 'Forking': (we probably won't need to be doing this)
** You can copy a version of the ontology into your own user space to make local changes, changes can be made there, and then a make a "pull request"
** Administrator can review the pull request and look at the difs, and select the parts that are accepted. Can also be voted on by the project members
** Works best if the files are easily "diffable", OBO works well, OWL not so well suited for this.  Possible changes coming to OWL to make this work better.
** Different than doing a check out
 
==2. Overview and update on the Plant Trait Ontology==
- The Trait Ontology can be accessed in various ways:
* [http://palea.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/trait_ontology/cgi-bin/trait_amigo/browse.cgi?session_id=1852amigo1337966110 TO-Dev AmiGO Browser]
* [http://crop-dev.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/amigo/cgi-bin/crop_amigo/term_details?term=TO:0000387&session_id=6933amigo1423596135 TO-Dev on Planteome Browser]
* Link to [http://palea.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/viewsvn/Poc/trunk/ontology/collaborators_ontology/gramene/traits/trait.obo?view=log TO on SVN]
 
===Updates on the Trait Ontology:===
* Early work (~2005-2011) on the TO was done by PJ and CWT at Gramene, primarily to describe QTLs of rice
* Since 2012, the Trait Ontology has not been funded under the PO grant
* Large amount of interest from the community drove the TO forward  [http://wiki.plantontology.org/index.php/Plant_Ontology_and_Crop_Annotation_Workshop_OSU_2012 Crop Plant Trait Ontology Workshop OSU 2012]
* A significant amount of work has been done to make the TO compatible with the PO and other reference ontologies
* In Summary:
** Revised def'n of the root term: plant trait
** Many changes to top level classes, new terms added, revised names of others
** Renamed and added new upper level terms to align the anatomy and morphology trait (TO:0000017) class with the plant anatomical entity (PO:0025131) branch of the PO
** Many new child terms added
** Definitions revised to contain references to the entity term and quality term from PATO
** Xrefs added to SF trackers
** Full details of the changes have been documented on the [http://wiki.plantontology.org/index.php/Plant_Trait_Ontology Trait Ontology Wiki page] and the [http://sourceforge.net/p/obo/plant-trait-ontology-to-requests/ Trait Ontology SourceForge tracker]
* Changes are currently stored on the [http://palea.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/viewsvn/Poc/trunk/ontology/collaborators_ontology/gramene/traits/trait.obo?view=markup SVN], with notes as to the nature of the changes.
 
==Logical Definitions; i.e. Cross Products==
* Chris has done some work on setting up logical definitions (also called Cross Products)
** Cross products are a way to 'decompose' the TO terms into the element entities (from PO, GO, ChEBI or other ontology) and qualities (from PATO).
** This allows automatic classification by the reasoner - so the computer can make inferences across the ontology
** Cross product file is currently stored on our SVN: [http://palea.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/viewsvn/Poc/trunk/ontology/collaborators_ontology/gramene/traits/trait_xp.obo?view=markup trait_xp.obo] last updated 16 months ago
 
* Example: ligule length (TO:0000024)
id: TO:0000024 ! ligule length
 
intersection_of: BATTO:0000001 ! biological attribute
 
intersection_of: affects_quality PATO:0000122 ! length
 
intersection_of: attribute_of PO:0020105 ! ligule
 
* ligule- PO:0020105 (is_a cardinal organ part; part_of vascular leaf)
* length- quality from PATO
* BATTO- now called "OBA"- [http://www.ontobee.org/browser/index.php?o=OBA Ontology of Biological Attributes], larger ontology which unifies trait ontologies across all types of life.
 
==3. Panzea Project: Curating Maize Diversity with MaizeGDB==
* Recent work with Mary Schaeffer of MaizeGDB which was presented at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in January 2015.
* Link to [https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxiii/webprogram/Paper14937.html Abstract]
* Link to presentation on Google Docs: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OKlfnd7f51JjUSH-S7Y0tgWQu-ySIVuBVMpa2CelZPI/edit?usp=sharing Curating Maize Diversity]]
*
 
=Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2015=
Who: PJ, EA, LC, BS, DWS

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