June 14th, 2016 Ontology Working Group Meeting

Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting

• Date: Tuesday June 14th, 2016
• Time: 8:15am PDT (GMT-7)

• Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: TBA

• Attendees:

• Regrets:

Update from NYBG: Welcome Brandon Sinn to the project

Brandon Sinn has joined Dennis Stevenson's group at the NYBG

• Brief biography from Brandon: I received my Ph.D. in December 2015 from Ohio State University, under the supervision of Dr. John Freudenstein. My dissertation focused on phylogenetics, character-associated diversification, species delimitation, and organellar genome evolution in the genus Asarum (Aristolochiaceae).

• Update from Brandon and Dennis on their work:
• Planteome Goal: Develop ontologies required for annotating and describing the experiments, data sets, tagging published papers, and images.
  • We are augmenting the PO with taxon neutral, but specialized terms required for accurate annotation or genes and visual aids.
  • We will be doing this in an integrated systems approach where we start in the stem and work our way into all other organs.

Currently sorting through stele types. We will next move to roots.

• • We plan to work up PO-annotated life cycle diagrams
  • We are generating visual aids for ontological terms for taxa that currently have genome annotations accessible in the Planteome portal, and their relatives.

Wild-type models and their relatives
Macro-scale organs for use by individuals in the field or interested citizen scientists or students
High resolution scans of pertinent illustrations and line drawings from pre-copyright books and peer-reviewed literature.

• • Histological preparations from these targeted taxa, tissues and organs for annotation in the PO.
  • Curating, imaging, and incorporating historic liquid-preserved anatomical collections housed at the NYBG:
  • Stevenson, Chamberlain, Ericaceae

• Questions:
  • Brandon is interested in helping to annotate orphan genomes and the maintenance of reference genome annotations (goal 2.3 from Planteome Ontology Development Working Group Wiki).
• There are 17 species listed with fewer than 10,000 annotations. Who maintains/adds these, and how can I?
• Is Brandon able to receive training that was provided at the November 2015 curator training workshop?
• Are we able to link PO terms to the Virtual Plant website?

Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016), Annecy, France on July 6th-9th, 2016

• http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/

• BS is attending
• most technically sophisticated ontology meeting, non computational
• what relations should we use, how are ontologies taught?, what an object is?
• High level ontology design and engineering
• Planteome could present results in 2018, when we have some results - held every two years

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