May 2nd, 2017 Ontology Working Group Meeting

Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting

• Date: Tuesday May 2nd, 2017
• Time: 8:15am PDT (GMT-7)

• Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/417836474

Agenda

TBA....

Update from AgBioData Workshop, Salt Lake City, April 18-19th, 2017

• The purpose of this meeting is to bring together personnel from agricultural scientific databases to plan common projects, establish proof of principle for data sharing, and to establish standards and guidelines for agricultural genomic, genetic and breeding databases.

Link to folder on Google drive: AgBioData Ontology Working Group Notes

Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

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)

Plant Biology 2017, June 24th-28th, Honolulu, Hawaii

• Important deadlines:
  • April 30, 2017: Deadline for early-bird registration rates for Plant Biology 2017 and iMOSS 2017.
  • May 24, 2017: Deadline for submission of abstracts to be included in the online program book and to receive a poster number.
  • May 27, 2017: Deadline for discount hotel rates. (Please note: Our discounted room block may fill up long before this deadline.)
  • June 12, 2017: Final deadline for Plant Biology 2017 abstract submissions.
  • June 12, 2017: Deadline for standard registration rates for Plant Biology 2017 and iMOSS 2017.
  • June 24–28, 2017: Onsite registration during Plant Biology 2017!

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?

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