Thursday May 21st, 2015

• Who: GG, PJ, LC, MAL, JE, JP, LC
• Not available: DWS, EZ, ST, BS, CM

• Link to recording- Video: File:Planteome All Hands Meeting-5-21-15-video.mp4

• Link to recording- Audio: File:Planteome All Hands Meeting-5-21-15 audio.m4a

A. General Comments and Updates:

Introductions:

• Georgios V. Gkoutos, University of Aberystwyth, UK :

• Marie-Angelique LaPorte (Bioversity International):

Updates on new hires

- Post-doc position at OSU- Six candidates were interviewed and an offer has been made, new person should join in late June or early July.

- Post-doc position at Aberystwyth University, UK- GG will send the advertisement to LC, and we can help circulate it- post on Planteome social media sites (blog post, FB, Twitter) and send out on mailing lists: PO discuss, OBO-discuss?, etc. - done

• PJ suggested that we could forward to a couple of the candidates who applied for the OSU position- recent PhD's from India with bioinformatics backgrounds. - done

- Post-doc position at NYBG- No news on this yet

Plan for ontology workshop

- Involvement of Agmips, Agrovoc collaborators

Discussion about the Advisory Board

Suggestions:

• Ruth Bastow

• Sandy Knapp

• From BS: Suggest: Lynn Schriml, just named President of the Standards Consortium , (but I am not pressing on her behalf).

B. Update from IT group- Data Store, AmiGO2- Justin Elser

AmiGO 2 progress

• Working on creating an planteome importer owl file to simplify the loading of the ontologies via the golr Makefile. Working on a catalog xml file to redirect URI in the importer OWL.

• Troubleshooting issue with loading both the environment and trait ontologies where loading both causes the EO to disappear from AmiGO.

Git migration

• Trait ontology has been moved to GitHub. Will move the rest after some more testing.

C. Update from AISO/BisQue group- Justin Preece:

Working Group Summary Page: Meetings and activities

New member

• Ryan Kitchen (CS Undergrad, Sinisa Todorovic's group)
  • will be working with Xu Xu on PIA development over the summer

Software Development

• XX and RK are actively developing Phase I
  • using a local Bisque dev engine provided by KK
• Specification
• Phase I timeline

Big Data + Bio-image Informatics Workshop: May 14-15, UC-Santa Barbara

• Attended this workshop as collaborators with the iPlant Bisque group
• JP gave an AISO software demo and talked about the Planteome project and our efforts to port AISO to iPlant Bisque
• Meeting Agenda
• Report