Planteome Curator workshop Fall 2015

Dates: Week of Monday, Nov. 9th to Friday Nov. 13th

• People could arrive Sunday Nov 8th. See below for more info on the logistics
• Who should attend? Planteome Ontology team: developers and software team and experts from various crops
  • Barry Smith- (will attend Nov 10th-11th???)
  • Dennis will attend remotely on Mon Nov 9th and Tues Nov 10th
  • Chris Mungall and Seth Carbon
  • Marie-Angelique LaPorte
  • LC, JE, AM

• Not able to attend: Elizabeth, George and John

• Will invite the CO curators who are interested, can have another session at the PAG meeting for those who cannot attend

Goals of the meeting

1. Strategic Planning

• Goal: Form a strategic plan on how to build each ontology and how they fit together in the Planteome
• Who: Core Ontology Working Group:
  • PJ, LC, AM, JE, DWS, CM, BS, EA, MAL, GG, SC

2. GitHub, TermGenie and Protege Training

• Lead by Chris Mungall, Marie-Angelique can assist
• Goal: Train curators in using the GitHub Repositories and Protege software for ontology curation - collect their feedback
• Jenkins and Continuous integration

• Who: Ontology Curators
  • Planteome team: LC, AM, MAL, NYBG postdoc?, GG postdoc?, OSU undergrad students- Megan and Ethan
  • Any of the CO curators are ready to be involved in ontology development

3. Ontology Curation and Data Annotation

• Planteome Vision: Distributed ontology development and maintenance
• Wants a group of ontology developers to meet face-to-face
• Get curators together for some hands-on development and Data Annotation

• Possible Ontology Developers- collaborators to be included based on areas of focus- maybe a dedicated group for each crop group?
  • legumes- soybean, Medicago (Rex Nelson), peanut, lentils (Scott Kalber)
  • tubers- cassava (Afola Agbona, IITA), potato (Reinhard Simon) and sweet potato (Vilma Huela): both from CIP
  • wheat, rice and maize?

Logistics:

• Planned to be in Corvallis- plan to fly into Portland (PDX) ~1.5hrs drive, or Eugene (EUG) ~ 50 mins drive
  • Hut Shuttle service from Portland Airport: http://www.hutshuttle.com/
• Accommodations: Link to information about hotels in Corvallis: Corvallis_Oregon-Hotels.
• Closest hotel to campus is the Hilton Garden Inn

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