Ontology Working Group Meetings- Feb 2015

Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2015

Who: PJ, EA, LC, JE, CM, BS

1. Coordination between the species-specific Crop Ontologies and the reference ontologies- PO, TO, GO etc

PJ: Initial goal will be to work on improving and updating the TO

EA provided an overview of the Crop Ontology curation tool (http://www.cropontology.org/) and some background information about the ontologies and platform.

• Part of the Integrated Breeding Platform
• Common vocabularies are used to integrate data from breeders field book
• Was started as part of the Generation Challenge Program (GCP), which has run out of funding. The GCP Pantheon webiste (http://pantheon.generationcp.org/index.php) will be shut down soon and so that information needs to be moved somewhere else. Could perhaps go the the GCP Wiki page?

• 18 crops (http://www.cropontology.org/) represented in five sections:
  • General Germplasm Ontology
  • Phenotype and Trait Ontology
  • Structural and Functional Genomic Ontology
  • Location and Environmental Ontology
  • Plant Anatomy & Development Ontology

Cassava Example:

• Based on OBO-Edit
• Excel-based template
• Visualized by the tool

Common Trait Classes (e.g.) : Maize Ontology (http://www.cropontology.org/ontology/CO_322/Maize)

• "Agronomic/Agronomical"
• Morphological
• Stress (Abiotic/Biotic Stresses)
• Phenological
• Quality
• Unit

Relations:

• is_a
• part _of
• method_of
• scale _of
• derived_from

Availability and Formats:

• Download from www.cropontology.org
• API- http://www.cropontology.org/api
• make 'Permalink' to individual terms pages
• Formats include csv, OBO, SKOS, RDF, Trait Template v4
• Ones in blue are OBO based
• Terms are translated into various languages, as synonyms

Terms have a unique identifier:

• CO_###:#######

Questions and Discussion:

• Goal is to keep the web-based tool for user access?
• Database behind it is no-SQL based
• Integration with future versions of Term Genie
• We will need a technical call as we we move towards integration at GitHub

2. Prioritizing the work on the species-specific Crop Ontologies- Rice, Wheat and Maize

• At the PAG meeting- Rice, wheat and Maize were identified as the best candidates to start on
• The PO is well set up to provide entity terms for these as they are important crop/model species
• The TO has some of the needed terms, but will need additional work

Fill in some details of the Rice, Wheat and Maize vocabs here:

3. Transition to GitHub Repository

Planteome Ontologies on GitHub

• This will be very useful for editting and versioning, then the relased version can be pushed out to Crop Ontology site

5. Possible Ontology development workshop this spring

Time is quite short, maybe consider a web-conferencing strategy to start, new people are being added to project at OSU, NYBG, CO