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* Ontology Repositories at GitHub- in progress | * Ontology Repositories at GitHub- in progress | ||
* Progress on opening new Planteome-related positions in the Jaiswal Lab (software developer, curator) | * Progress on opening new Planteome-related positions in the Jaiswal Lab (software developer, curator) | ||
* LC will look into using Zoom for calls, possibly will get a speaker phone | * LC will look into using Zoom (https://www.zoom.us/) for calls, possibly will get a speaker phone | ||
== C. Update from IT group- Data Store, AmiGO2, Justin Elser:== | == C. Update from IT group- Data Store, AmiGO2, Justin Elser:== |
Revision as of 01:11, 9 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
A. Introductions, as some people have not met yet.
See details on last month's page: Tuesday_Jan_6th,_2015
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
- 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
- Will be hiring a postdoc once the contracts are set up, somewhat of a lengthly procedure, will keep us posted
- Will be working with the ontology group and closely with John Doonan
John Doonan, University of Aberystwyth, UK (not present on the call)
- Senior person, collaborator- Director National Plant Phenomics Centre for the UK (http://www.plant-phenomics.ac.uk/en/)
- Tools and workflows developed in the project will be integrated into the NPPC, for the phenotype evaluation
Elizabeth Arnaud: CGIAR Centers
Crop Ontologies (http://www.cropontology.org/)
- Applied ontologies, crop specific ontologies and vocabularies for plant breeders communities traits, methods and scales
- Align concepts with PO, TO, GO, PDO and expand the list of traits
- Integrating descriptors for annotating germplasm=m and genetic experiments in the various CGIAR campuses
- List of 8-10 crops and or clades, and will add additional ones
- Build common references and cross links
- Contribute to development of the reference ontologies
- Outreach to users on CGIARS campuses
- Key crops for the initial pilot cases: wheat, maize, rice
- Will also test alignment tools and annotation tools
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
- Contracts work on an invoice system
- 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 (if you are reading this, it must be working :-))
- Ontology Repositories at GitHub- in progress
- Progress on opening new Planteome-related positions in the Jaiswal Lab (software developer, curator)
- LC will look into using Zoom (https://www.zoom.us/) for calls, possibly will get a speaker phone
C. Update from IT group- Data Store, AmiGO2, Justin Elser:
- Justin E has been working with Seth Carbon and Chris Mungall on installing the SolR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr) system to run the AmiGO2 browser
- Index based, dynamic, flexible and adaptable
- Call last Friday- ideas for data visualizations,
- Running, but needs some extension from the GO Schema for the new relations we use in the PO etc
- Background: Plant Ontology has been run on MySQL database in the past, but now we are transitioning to the new NoSQL platform.
- Has some visualization tools, for the ontologies rather than the data
- Need some use cases for demonstration
- Development version will be run from OSU, then eventually will be ported to the new Live site at iPlant
- Also involves contributions from Eugene Zhang and his two grad students- who will share tasks, one main one secondary
- JE can add the needed access for the people involved
- JE will document steps in progress- see link to wiki page:http://wiki.planteome.org/index.php/AmiGO2_install
D. Update from AISO/BisQue group- Justin Preece:
- Lead by Sinisa, with two graduate students, 3 meetings in last two weeks Image_Annotation_Working_Group_Meetings
- AISO is a desktop software- Annotation of Images with Ontologies: http://www.plantontology.org/software/AISO
- Based on segmentation of images and labeling those with ontology terms
- Initially done with the Plant anatomy terms from the PO
- Goal is to expand the work done for AISO to the BisQue online platform
- BisQue Platform: http://bioimage.ucsb.edu/bisque;
- Advanced image manipulation, storage, and annotation platform, hosted on the iPlant
- Lacks interactive segmentation functions and ontology annotation for metadata
- Annotated images will also be stored at iPLant
- Generation of Sample Images - DWS
- Need to generate the labeled images- initially using AISO
- Priorities would be images of leaf types, flowers, root and stem sections
- DWS has a large number of images from the plant anatomy textbook - will send us the link
- DWS owns them so it is not a problem, part of the laboratory exercises on a CD for the book
- Will go along with the glossary of anatomy terms based on the PO
- Recent AVATOL grant meeting: http://avatol.org/; http://currents.plos.org/treeoflife/avatol/; http://currents.plos.org/treeoflife/article/next-generation-phenomics-for-the-tree-of-life/
- Sinisa and Thomas G Dietterich are involved, machine learning direction is planned for later developemnts
- Their goal is automatically filling cells in data matrices for phylogenetic analysis, based on the images
- Our goal is integrating the ontologies, anatomy first, then the qualities, ultimately connect to the GO
- New AISO-BisQue tool will be online and version controlled,
E. Update from Ontologies Working group:
Who is involved: EA, BS, DWS, LC, PJ, others TBA
Next meeting is Tuesday Feb 10th, 2015 8:30am PST (GMT-8)
EA: Ad for postdoc position has been advertised, as of Friday Jan 30th, and open till end of February. Anticipate having the person in place by Mid-March. VA_PostDoc_CropOntology_NSF_MPL_Final.pdf
- PJ: we can help advertise the position advertisement- by posting on Planteome.org and the PO Facebook page. EA asked
- First steps for Ontologies WG is to decide on which of the species-specific Crop Ontologies we will focus on initially. Previously we had discussed wheat, rice and maize as the initial targets.
- The Plant Ontology should be fairly mature as a source of the entity terms, for the plant parts and stages, but need to assess what needs to be done from the CO side for the species specific trait ontologies.
- Additional terms can be added to the PO as needed
- BS can look over the TO and provide guidance as to the structure-
- Comments from email, after the call:
- EA met with Ruaraidh Sackville-Hamilton (Head of Genetic Resources, IRRI)- They are working on updating the rice trait dictionary and they are interested in making sure the terms are cross-referenced with the TO terms.
- Need to make sure they have access to the latest version of the TO, and may need some assistance to ensure the links are done correctly.
- LC will follow up with EA to coordinate it
- Initial efforts will need to be focused on maturing the Trait Ontology and filling in the gaps.
Links: http://www.cropontology.org/
F. Position Paper or "White Paper"
- In order to state our plans and cultivate our ideas, we should move quickly to produce a Position Paper or "White Paper".
- We do not want to lose out on ideas and concepts that we have proposed- others may take the credit and publish it first
- We should put forward our plans and stance, and what we expect to produce, rather than discussing it later in the project
- Build a community consensus on widespread acceptance and availability, invite discussions
- Possible places: Plant Methods, Nature Plants, Nature Methods, New Phytologist
- Will help us crystallize our ideas, goals and plans
Goals:
- Define the vocabularies and terms such as phenotypes, etc
- What level of phenotypes are we looking at: molecular aspects, function, processes, location, etc
- Any evaluated characteristic of an entity can considered a phenotype