Planteome All-Hands Monthly Meeting- Thursday Feb 6th, 2015

Who: PJ, EA, LC, JE, JP, DWS, GG, EZ, BS; Not available: ST, CM, JD

Agenda:

See details on last months page: Tuesday_Jan_6th,_2015

Schedule will be: Monthly all hands meetings and the working groups will meet and report back to the group.
PJ will circulate final version of the proposal in a cleaned up format
Planteome-Internal Mailing list has been set up, this will be a useful way to share information among the key people in the team.
Planteome Wiki page has been set up with password protection

Guidance on ontology development, consistent structure for PO and can be extended to other ontologies
Head of the OBO foundry, setting standards for ontology

Roles- As laid out in the proposal, (Fibi? was this referring to the ERA-CAPs proposal??)
create logical definitions for plant phenotype ontology
Expand Plant Phenoment , along with Phenotype RCN
- Developed out of http://phenomebrowser.net/index.html
Contribute to expanding the reference ontologies as need
PATO partially funded from this project, will need to address needs of the Planteome as we move forward
Should have an acknowledgment on the PATO web site:http://wiki.obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/PATO:Main_Page
Will be hiring once the contracts are set up, somewhat of a lengthly procedure, will keep us posted

Applied ontologies, crop specific ontologies and vocabularies for plant breeders communities
Integrating descriptors for annotating germplasm=m and genetic experiments in the various CGIAR campuses
List of 8-10 crops and or clades
Build common references and cross links
Contribute to development of the reference ontologies
Outreach to users on CGIARS campuses
Align concepts with TO, PO, GO, PTO and expand the list of traits
Key crops for the initial pilot cases: wheat, maize, rice
Will also test alignment tools and algorithms

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