May 24th, 2016 Ontology Working Group Meeting
Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting
- Date: Tuesday May. 24th, 2016
- Time: 8:15am PDT (GMT-7)
- Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/400883197
- Attendees: LC, AM, MAL, BS, EA, PJ
- Regrets: CM
Agenda
1. Update from PhenoHarmonIS 2016, May 9th-13th, 2016; Montpellier, France
- Planteome members attending: LC, MAL, AM, EA, GG, JD
- Reports from the meeting:
- Link to website: https://sites.google.com/a/cgxchange.org/cropontologycommunity/home or http://tinyurl.com/hzsho6v
- About 70+ Participants attended: PhenoHarmonIS_List-of-participants
- Link to the agenda: PhenoHarmonIS Agenda
Planteome Presentations:
- Monday afternoon: oral presentation (10 mins) LC: "The Planteome Project"
- Monday late afternoon: Poster presentation- LC, AM, MAL: Planteome Poster
- Tuesday morning: oral presentation (10 min)- AM: "Annotating germplasm using the Plant Trait Ontology in Planteome"
- Tuesday afternoon: oral presentation (10 min)- MAL: "Ontology Mapping Techniques for traits"
- Tuesday afternoon: Hands-on Session (2.5 hours)- LV:
- Progressing on the Trait Dictionaries: Groups: Tree species (cacao), Musa, barley, wheat, rice, sorghum, potato, sweet potato, yam
- Feedback on the TD template
- Thursday afternoon: Hands-on Session (2.5 hours)-AM, LC: "Planteome: Bring Your Own Data Annotation Mini-Workshop
- 9 participants, 7 crop species:
- Nordine El- Hassouni - CIRAD - rice
- Trushar Shah- IITA, Kenya - cassava, cowpea, and banana
- Jeffery Detras - IRRI - rice
- Reinhard Simon - Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Peru - potato/sweet potato
- Manuel Riuz - CIRAD, France / CIAT, Colombia - rice
- Cecile Grenier - CIRAD/CIAT Colombia - rice
- Ashley DuVal - Mars, Inc USA - cacao
- Anthony Bolger - RWTH Aachen University - Institute for Biology 1, Germany
- Astrid Junker - IPK Gatersleben, Germany - HTP phenotyping
- Outcomes:
- No matter how hard you try to streamline the process, the uniqueness of people's data will continue to require expert intervention.
- the work is never truly "automated" -
- everything requires a human checkpoint.
- reference ontology space makes it very difficult to standardize workflow
- no one is an expert on all things we attempt to capture
- collaborating with other application ontologies or working groups is necessary
- High throughput phenotyping requires an entirely new standard vocabulary
- perhaps could be captured with a new set of "methods"?
- Only a few measurements are taken
- most of the "traits" are calculations and inferences
- No matter how hard you try to streamline the process, the uniqueness of people's data will continue to require expert intervention.
- 9 participants, 7 crop species:
2. Planning for ICBO/BioCreative Conference
- Link to program: ICBO + BioCreative
- Currently have 67 submissions, but only 12 people have registered
- PJ will send a reminder to the authors of the submitted papers:
1. In order to have your accepted submission included in the proceedings of the meeting, at least one author from each paper must register for the meeting.
2. Where authors are involved in more than one submission, a distinct author must register for each accepted paper.
3. Planning for Post-ICBO Curator Workshop
- The idea is this would be similar to the one held at OSU in November 2015
- Dates??
- Who is interested in attending ?
- Should we send out a survey?
- If people come for the week of ICBO, are they able to stay for an additional 5 days to a week?
- Other options: Perhaps do in September before OSU starts?
4.Planteome Ontology Updates
- "Soft Release" of Plant Ontology, still working out a few issues for the Plant Trait Ontology
Upcoming Meetings and Workshops
9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016), Annecy, France on July 6th-9th, 2016
http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/ - BS is attending
BioOntologies SIG of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB); July 8-12, 2016, Orlando, Florida
- Dates: July 8th and 9th, with July 9th being the “Phenotype Day”, focused on the systematic description of phenotypes.
- Short papers, up to 4 pages (will be published in JBMS)
- Poster abstracts, up to 1 page
- Flash updates, up to 1 page
7th International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative 2016 Aug 1st to 4th, Corvallis, OR
- Link to program: ICBO + BioCreative Program
- Link to Easy Chair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/conference_info.cgi?a=10776589