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* Will be hiring once the contracts are set up, somewhat of a lengthly procedure, will keep us posted
* Will be hiring once the contracts are set up, somewhat of a lengthly procedure, will keep us posted
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====John Doonan,  Director National Plant Phenomics Centre====
====John Doonan,  University of Aberystwyth, UK (not present on the call) ====
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* Collaborator- Director National Plant Phenomics Centre for the UK
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====Elizabeth Arnaud: CGIAR ====
====Elizabeth Arnaud: CGIAR ====

Revision as of 00:20, 6 February 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
  • Planteome-Internal Mailing list has been set up, this will be a useful way to share information among the key people in the team.
  • Planteome Wiki page has been set up with password protection
  • Ontology Repositories at GitHub- in progress


Barry Smith, University at Buffalo

  • Head of the OBO Foundry, Ontology Consultant
  • Guidance on ontology development, consistent structure for PO and can be extended to other ontologies
  • Setting standards for ontologies

Georgios Gkoutos, University of Aberystwyth, UK:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Will be hiring once the contracts are set up, somewhat of a lengthly procedure, will keep us posted

John Doonan, University of Aberystwyth, UK (not present on the call)

  • Collaborator- Director National Plant Phenomics Centre for the UK

Elizabeth Arnaud: CGIAR

Crop Ontologies (http://www.cropontology.org/)

  • Applied ontologies, crop specific ontologies and vocabularies for plant breeders communities
  • Integrating descriptors for annotating germplasm=m and genetic experiments in the various CGIAR campuses
  • List of 8-10 crops and or clades
  • Build common references and cross links
  • Contribute to development of the reference ontologies
  • Outreach to users on CGIARS campuses
  • Align concepts with TO, PO, GO, PTO and expand the list of traits
  • Key crops for the initial pilot cases: wheat, maize, rice
  • Will also test alignment tools and algorithms

C.  :

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