Feb 21st, 2017 Ontology Working Group Meeting

Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting

• Date: Tuesday Feb 21st, 2017
• Time: 8:15am PST (GMT-8)
• Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/370267127

• Attendees: LC, PJ, AM, JE, CM, BS, DWS, BSinn, DC, EA, Mal

• Regrets: none

• Recordings:

• Link to notes on Gdoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DZur5ivCsAa5mFLs3vBKL1sZitt8txVsTLu9i1h2iZ0/edit?usp=sharing

Meeting update: Phenome 2017, Feb 10th to 14th, 2017

• http://www.phenome2017.org/#homepage
• LC , received a travel grant, and presented Planteome presentation
• AM presented Samara poster
• DWS and BtSinn decided not to attend

Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

Biocuration 2017, March 26-29, 2017

• Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States
• http://biocuration2017.org
• Upcoming deadlines:
• Abstract submission for poster ONLY February 17, 2017
• Early conference registration February 17, 2017
• Online conference registration March 10, 2017
  • Submission email: biocuration2017@lists.stanford.edu

• Biocuration 2017 will bring together hundreds of leading curation scientists, bioinformaticians, and developers from all over the world to discuss their work, promote collaboration and foster a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research.

2017 Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting, June 1-5th, 2017, Corvallis

• GO Meeting Corvallis
• Registration
• Travel plans

• Dates: June 1-5, 2017 (Details)
  • Arrive (May 31) View travel directions
  • GOC meeting (June 1-3)
  • Noctua gene annotation jamboree (June 4)
  • Reactome Pathway curation jamboree (June 5)
  • Depart (June 5 late evening / June 6 anytime)

XIX International Botanical Congress, July 23-29, 2017, Shenzhen, China

• Workshop proposal accepted-

• T5-06:Ontologizing botanical knowledge (two sessions)
  • Organizer: Hong Cui (University of Arizona, USA)
  • James Macklin (Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, Canada)
  • Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA)

• T5-18: Bioinformatics resources for comparative functional and phylogenetic analysis of plant genomes, pathways and diversity
  • Organizer: Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Sushma Naithani (Oregon State University, USA)

• Deadline for the abstract submission for oral presentations has been extended for 39 of the 212 general symposia where one or a few speaker slots are available
• New deadline: February 15, 2017 for those 39 symposia and for posters only

• Abstract submitted? Not yet

ICBO 2017, Sept 12th-15th, 2017

• Newcastle, GB
• http://icbo.buffalo.edu/
• Important dates:
  • Mar 29, 2017: Workshops and tutorials proposals submission deadline
  • Apr 19, 2017: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials
  • Jun 02, 2017: Paper and Poster Deadline
  • Jun 16, 2017: Paper Reviews Due