Thursday Feb 6th, 2015
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:
A. Introductions, as some people have not met yet.
See details on last months page: Tuesday_Jan_6th,_2015
B. General Comments and Updates:
- 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
Barry Smith: Ontology Consultant
- Guidance on ontology development, consistent structure for PO and can be extended to other ontologies
- Head of the OBO foundry, setting standards for ontology
GG:
- 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
Elizabeth Arnaud: CGIAR
Crop Ontologies (http://www.cropontology.org/)
- 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
C. :
- Progress on opening new Planteome-related positions in the Jaiswal Lab (software developer, curator)