Sept 27th, 2016 Ontology Working Group Meeting

Planteome Ontology WG Zoom Meeting

• Date: Tuesday Sept 27th, 2016
• Time: 8:15am PDT (GMT-7)

• Connection details: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/528884901

• Attendees:
• Regrets:

Recordings:

Update on the Planteome Release 1.0, September 2016

• Planteome 1.0 database includes 67,272 ontology terms with links to approximately 1.9 million (M) bioentities (data objects) including proteins, genes, RNA transcripts and gene models, germplasm, and QTLs.
• Bioentities were often annotated to more than one ontology term, resulting in approximately 17.2M annotations.
• Annotated data was sourced from 24 unique database resources and covers 86 different plant taxa.
• Functional GO annotations are available for 62 species, which, for many of these species, the Planteome is a unique annotation resource.
• Available at http://planteome.org/ and also at the CyVerse Mirror site: http://draco.cyverse.org/amigo

• Link to http://planteome.org/blog

Recent meetings and Conferences

NSF meeting Sept 7-8th, 2016

• PJ attended, presented Planteome

GODAN Summit, New York City, Sept 15-16th, 2016

• http://summit.godan.info/
• Shared exhibit booth:
  • Planteome- PJ attended
  • Crop Ontology- Bioversity- EA
  • Gramene
  • Agronomy Ontology- Medha
  • IC3-FOODS at UC Davis for Food Ontology
  • Agricultural Nutrition and Technology Ontology (ANT)

Other items?

Fall workshop planning

Problem of lack of affordable housing at OSU this fall

Scientific Advisory Board

• List of possible people:
  • Sandy Knapp
  • Lynn Schriml (Lynn Schriml- Google Scholar)
  • Sarah Mathews - Was at Harvard, but she has moved to CSIRO in Canberra, Australia
  • Ruth Bastow
  • others?

• LC will draft a letter and discuss with PJ
• Goals review progress, help improve, recommend us to funders
• Could have a meeting with them at the fall workshop

Upcoming Meetings and Workshops

4th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, CIMMYT, December 13 – 15, 2016

• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
• El Batan, Texcoco, México (Near Mexico City)
• Early bird registration deadline: October 16, 2016

• http://www.cimmyt.org/event/4th-international-plant-phenotyping-symposium/

Plant and Animal Genome 2017, Jan 14-18, 2017, San Diego, CA, USA

http://www.intlpag.org/

Phenome 2017, Feb 10th to 14th, 2017

http://www.phenome2017.org/#homepage

XIX International Botanical Congress, July 23-29, 2017, Shenzhen, China

Workshop proposal accepted