Thursday Feb 6th, 2015

Planteome All-Hands Monthly Meeting- Thursday Feb 6th, 2015

Who: PJ, EA, LC, JE, JP, DWS, GG, EZ, BS; Not available: ST, CM, JD

Agenda:

A. Introductions, as some people have not met yet.

See details on last months page: Tuesday_Jan_6th,_2015

B. General Comments and Updates:

• Schedule will be: Monthly all hands meetings and the working groups will meet and report back to the group.
• PJ will circulate final version of the proposal in a cleaned up format

BS: Ontology Consultant

• Guidance on ontology development, consistent structure for PO and can be extended to other ontologies
• Head of the OBO foundry, setting standards for ontology

GG:

• Roles- As laid out in the proposal, (Fibi? was this referring to the ERA-CAPs proposal??)
• create logical definitions for plant phenotype ontology
• Expand Plant Phenoment , along with Phenotype RCN
  • Developed out of http://phenomebrowser.net/index.html
• Contribute to expanding the reference ontologies as need
• PATO partially funded from this project, will need to address needs of the Planteome as we move forward
• Should have an acknowledgment on the PATO web site:http://wiki.obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/PATO:Main_Page

EA: CGIAR- Crop Ontologies

• Applied ontologies, crop specific ontologies and vocabularies for plant breeders communities

C.  :

3. Progress on opening new Planteome-related positions in the Jaiswal Lab (software developer, curator)