Thursday March 5th, 2015

Who: PJ, EA, LC, JE, JP Not available: BS, JD

A. General Comments and Updates:

• Schedule for Monthly All-Hands meetings

- do we need to do a new doodle poll or is this time good?

• Planteome Wiki page has been set up with password protection (if you are reading this, it must be working :-))

From last meeting... * PJ will circulate final version of the proposal in a cleaned-up format

• Progress on opening new Planteome-related positions in the Jaiswal Lab (software developer, curator)

C. Update from IT group- Data Store, AmiGO2, Justin Elser:

• AmiGO 2.2.3 site up and running at dev.planteome.org. It currently just has GO and a small subset of annotations.
• Note: I was unable to get it to load with the ncbi taxon ontology like GO has because the loading program ran out of memory.
• JE is working with Chris Sullivan to figure out a way to be able to do the load from one of the compute nodes in the cluster as they have much more RAM.
• Notes are at AmiGO2_install

D. Update from AISO/BisQue group- Justin Preece:

• Lead by Sinisa, with two graduate students, Image_Annotation_Working_Group_Meetings

From last week:

• 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

E. Update from Ontologies Working group:

Who is involved: EA, BS, DWS, LC, PJ, others TBA

• Next meeting is Friday Mar 6th, 2015 8:30am PST (GMT-8)

Update on Position advertisements:

• Crop Ontology position is closed (?), interviews are March 19-20th

• Oregon State University Advertisement: posted on various sites: http://aspb.site-ym.com/networking/apply_now.aspx?view=2&id=276580

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
• Possible places: Plant Methods, Nature Plants, Nature Methods, New Phytologist
• Will help us crystallize our ideas, goals and plans

Goals:

• Build a community consensus on widespread acceptance and availability, invite discussions
• 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