Mar 1st, 2016 Ontology Working Group Meeting

Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting

• Date: Tuesday Mar. 1st, 2016
• Time: 8:15am PST (GMT-8)
• Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/762470789

• Links to recordings:

• Attendees:

Tentative Agenda:

1. recent updates on the TO

• revisions to equivalence axioms- occurs_in and composition
• Stem and culm
• anther morphology traits, incl. anther number
• biochemical branch

2. Changes and updates in the CO files

• rice
• cassava
• lentil

• newly mapped and added- wheat--- TBA

Visit to IRRI

• Monday March 7th to Friday March 11th
• Goals: TD revision and data annotation- MAL, and Leo will be working on trait dictionary
• Austin- send me the contact info
• all 3 - should be contacting each other as a group

Status of second year funding

• Bioversity is getting impatient, PJ will follow up with NSF and find out

Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

Biocuration 2016, April 10th-14th,2016; Geneva, Switzerland

• MAL is going
  • key dates
  • Abstract submitted: https://easychair.org/conferences/submission.cgi?a=10690939;submission=2641703

GARNet/Egenis Workshop: Integrating Large Data into Plant Science, April 21st-22nd 2016, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon

• Elizabeth and George are going, EA will present Planteome as part of her talk

BioOntologies SIG of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB); July 8-12, 2016, Orlando, Florida

• Dates: July 8th and 9th, with July 9th being the “Phenotype Day”, focused on the systematic description of phenotypes.
  • Short papers, up to 4 pages (will be published in JBMS)
  • Poster abstracts, up to 1 page
  • Flash updates, up to 1 page

7th International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative 2016 Aug 1st to 4th, Corvallis, OR

• Link to program: ICBO + BioCreative Program
• Link to Easy Chair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/conference_info.cgi?a=10776589