Publications and Posters

Publications

• Segerdell, E., V.G. Ponferrada, C. James-Zorn, K.A. Burns, J.D. Fortriede, W.M. Dahdul, P.D. Vize and A.M. Zorn. 2013. Enhanced XAO: the ontology of Xenopus anatomy and development underpins more accurate annotation of gene expression and queries on Xenbase. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 4:31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-4-31
• Balhoff, J.P, I. Mikó, M.J. Yoder, P.L. Mullins, & A.R. Deans. 2013. A semantic model for species description, applied to the ensign wasps (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) of New Caledonia. Systematic Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt028
• Arighi, C, et al. (including Dahdul, Mabee, Cui, Haendel, Balhoff) 2012. An Overview of the BioCreative 2012 Workshop Track III: Interactive Text Mining Task. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bas056
• Bertone, M.A., I. Mikó, M.J. Yoder, K.C. Seltmann, J.P. Balhoff, and A.R. Deans. 2012. Matching arthropod anatomy ontologies to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: Results from a manual alignment. Database http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bas057
• Dahdul W.M., Balhoff J.P, Blackburn D.C., Diehl A.D., Haendel M.A., Hall B.K., Lapp H., Lundberg J.G., Mungall C.J., Ringwald M., Segerdell E., Van Slyke C.E., Vickaryous M.K., Westerfield M., Mabee P.M. 2012. A unified anatomy ontology of the vertebrate skeletal system. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51070 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070
• Mullins P., Kawada R., Balhoff J.P., Deans A. 2012. A revision of Evaniscus (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) using ontology-based semantic phenotype annotation. ZooKeys 223:1-38 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.223.3572
• Mabee P.M., Balhoff J.P., Dahdul W.M., Lapp H., Midford P.E., Vision T.J., Westerfield M. 2012. 500,000 fish phenotypes: The new informatics landscape of evolutionary and developmental skeletal biology. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28(3):300-305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.01985.x
• Deans, A.R., M.J. Yoder, J.P. Balhoff. 2011. Time to change how we describe biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27 (2):78-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.007
• Dahdul, W. M., J. P. Balhoff, J. Engeman, T. Grande, E. J. Hilton, C. R. Kothari, H. Lapp, J. G. Lundberg, P. E. Midford, T. J. Vision, M. Westerfield, and P. M. Mabee. 2010. Evolutionary characters, phenotypes and ontologies:curating data from the systematic biology literature. PLoS ONE 5(5):e10708. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010708
• Balhoff, J. P., W. M. Dahdul, C. R. Kothari, H. Lapp, J. G. Lundberg, P. M. Mabee, P. E. Midford, M. Westerfield, and T. J. Vision. 2010. Phenex: Ontological annotation of phenotypic diversity. PLoS ONE 5(5):e10500. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010500
• Washington, N.L., C.J. Mungall, M.Gibson, J.P. Balhoff, J. Day-Richter, and S. Lewis. Phenote: A biological data annotation editor using ontologies. In revision November 2010
• Dahdul, W.M., Lundberg, J.G., Midford, P.E., Balhoff, J.P., Lapp, H., Vision, T.J., Haendel, M.A., Westerfield, M., Mabee, P.M. 2010. The Teleost Anatomy Ontology: Anatomical Representation for the Genomics Age. Systematic Biology 59(4):369-383. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syq013
• Haendel, M.A., Neuhaus, F., Osumi-Sutherland, D.S., Mabee, P.M., Mejino J.L.V., Mungall, C.J., and Smith, B. 2008. CARO - The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology. In: Albert Burger, Duncan Davidson and Richard Baldock (Editors): Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics: Principles and Practice. ISBN 978-1-84628-884-5.
• Mabee PM, Ashburner M, Cronk Q, Gkoutos GV, Haendel M, Segerdell E, Mungall C, and Westerfield M. 2007. Phenotype ontologies: the bridge between genomics and evolution. Trends Ecol Evol. Jul; 22(7) 345-50. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.03.013
• Mabee PM, Arratia G, Coburn M, Haendel M, Hilton EJ, Lundberg JG, Mayden RL, Rios N, and Westerfield M. 2007. Connecting evolutionary morphology to genomics using ontologies: a case study from Cypriniformes including zebrafish. J Exp Zoolog B Mol Dev Evol.  doi:10.1002/jez.b.21181

Posters & Presentations

2013

Mabee, P.M., Dececchi, T.A., Ibrahim, N., Sereno, P., Balhoff, J.P. Aggregation of morphological characters across studies using an ontology-based phenotype approach. Poster presentation. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (October 31, 2013).

Mabee, P.M. Phylogenetic mapping of morphology from multiple studies using ontologies: Insights, prospects, and challenges. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France (October 24, 2013).

Mabee, P.M. Comparative morphology is integrated with genetics and development in the Phenoscape Knowledgebase. International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Barcelona, Spain (July 11, 2013).

Balhoff, J.P. Computing with phenotypic diversity using semantic descriptions. iEvoBio Conference, 26 June 2013, Snowbird, Utah.

Mungall, C.J., Jim Balhoff, Frederic Bastian, David Blackburn, Aurelie Comte, Wasila Dahdul , Alex Dececchi, Nizar Ibrahim, Suzanna E Lewis, Paula Mabee, Anne Niknejad, Melissa A Haendel. A merger of multi‐species anatomy ontologies. Biocuration Conference, April 7-10, 2013, Cambridge, UK.

Vision, T. Towards an integrated system for computationally linking vertebrate skeletal evolution and development genetics. Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 10 June 2013.

Vision, T. Phenotype challenges in Phenoscape vertebrate use cases, Third annual summit meeting, Phenotype RCN. 25 March 2013, NESCent, NC.

Cui, H., et al. 2013. CharaParser and associated software. Pro-ibiosphere workshop. Leiden, the Netherlands, Feb 2013.

2012

Balhoff, J.P. "Linking phenotypes using ontologies." Invited seminar, California Academy of Sciences, March 28, 2012.

Vision T. "Phenotypes, descriptive data, and measuring similarity using structured vocabularies". Invited seminar, University of Gottingen, March 8, 2012.

Dahdul, W., Balhoff, J., Blackburn, D., Diehl, A., Haendel, M., Hall, B., Lundberg, J., Mungall, C., Ringwald, M., Segerdell, E., Van Slyke, C., Vickaryous, M.K., Westerfield, M., Mabee, P. "VAO: A backbone for the ontological representation of vertebrate musculoskeletal anatomy. Poster. Fifth International Biocuration Conference, Georgetown (Washington, D.C.). April 2-4, 2012.

Cui, H., Balhoff J., Dahdul W., Lapp H., Mabee P., Vision T., & Chang, Z. (2012). PCS for Phylogenetic Systematic Literature Curation. BioCreative-2012 Workshop (April 4-5, 2012). Fifth International Biocuration Conference, Georgetown (Washington, D.C.). April 2-4, 2012. Proceedings of the BioCreative workshop 2012 (pp.137-144).

Chang Z., Balhoff J., Dahdul W., Lapp H., Mabee P., Vision T., & Cui, H. (2012). Workflow of CharaParser and Phenex: Turning character descriptions to EQ statements. BioCreative-2012 Workshop (April 4-5, 2012). Fifth International Biocuration Conference, Georgetown (Washington, D.C.). April 2-4, 2012. [poster and software demo]

Balhoff, J.P., Wasila M. Dahdul, Hilmar Lapp, Paula M. Mabee, Peter E. Midford, Todd J. Vision, and Monte J. Westerfield, on behalf of the Phenoscape Project Team. "The Phenoscape Knowledgebase: Integrating phenotypic data across taxonomy, from biodiversity to developmental genetics". Poster at DILS 2012, College Park, MD, June 28, 2012.

Catlett, J., Block, A., P. Mabee. Your Inner Fin: Studying Zebrafish Pectoral Fin Development to Understand Human Forelimb Mutations. Poster presentation. 2012 Science Festival- It’s All About Science, Sanford Research Center, July 28, 2012. Sioux Falls, SD. (also presented at the 2012 Sanford Summer Research Symposium, Sioux Falls, SD, August 2, 2012).

Green, C., Block, A., P. Mabee. Development of the hindlimb and pelvic fin. Poster presentation. 2012 Science Festival- It’s All About Science, Sanford Research Center, July 28, 2012. Sioux Falls, SD. (also presented at the 2012 Sanford Summer Research Symposium, Sioux Falls, SD, August 2, 2012).

Mabee, P. M. "Synthesis of evolutionary and developmental data for fishes using new informatics tools' Oral presentation, World Congress of Herpetology, Vancouver, BC, August 8-14, 2012.

Sereno, P.C., Ibrahim, N., Mabee, P., Vision, T., Lapp, H. "Phenoscape: A New Anatomical Ontology of Vertebrates". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, October 18, 2012.

Dececchi, T.A., Balhoff, J., Dahdul, W., Ibrahim, N., Lapp., H., Midford, P., Sereno, P.C., Vision, T., Westerfield, M., Mabee, P., Blackburn., D. "Phenoscape: Bridging the gap between fossils and genes".Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, October 18, 2012.

Ibrahim, N. "Dinosaurs of the Sahara". Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion (December 3, 2012).

2011

Paula Mabee (2011) Presentation "Comparative anatomy for the genomics age: Informatics to reason across vertebrate evolutionary and developmental biology”, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, Nov. 8, 2011.

Todd Vision, Judith Blake, Hilmar Lapp, Paula Mabee, Monte Westerfield (2011) Similarity Between Semantic Description Sets: Addressing Needs Beyond Data Integration. First International Workshop on Linked Science, Bonn, October 24, 2011, Extended abstract from Proceedings.

James Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Hilmar Lapp, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Monte Westerfield and Paula Mabee (2011) Poster; "Employing reasoning within the Phenoscape Knowledgebase", International Conference on Biomedical Ontology; University at Buffalo, NY, July 26-30, 2011

Wasila Dahdul, James Balhoff, Hilmar Lapp, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Monte Westerfield and Paula Mabee; (2011) Presentation; "Phenoscape: use cases and anatomy ontology requirements for linking evolutionary and model organism phenotypes", ICBO workshop: From fins to limbs to leaves: Facilitating anatomy ontology interoperability; International Conference on Biomedical Ontology; University at Buffalo, NY; Poster, July 26-30, 2011

James P. Balhoff, Peter E. Midford, Hilmar Lapp (2011) International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY, Integrating anatomy and phenotype ontologies with taxonomic hierarchies, July 2011.

James P. Balhoff and Hilmar Lapp (2011) Phenotype RCN Meeting, Boulder, CO, "The challenge of expressive reasoning over large knowledgebases", June 1, 2011.

Paula Mabee (2011) Keynote talk for Fish Skeletal Meeting (Tavira, Portugal) "500,000 fish phenotypes: the new informatics landscape of evolutionary and developmental skeletal biology." April 28, 2011.

Hilmar Lapp (2011) Reasoning over phenotype diversity, character change, and evolutionary descent. Invited seminar at University of Florida, March 1, 2011.

James P. Balhoff (2011) Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Cambridge, MA, "The Phenoscape Knowledgebase: Linking Evolutionary Diversity to Genetic Data Using Phenotype Ontologies" February 24, 2011.

Richard.C.Edmunds (2011) Northwest Developmental Biology Meeting, Society for Developmental Biology, Friday Harbor, WA "Using Phenoscape to Uncover the Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Phenotypes" March 17, 2011.

Monte Westerfield (2011) Phenotype Ontology Project Meeting, Berlin, "Update on Phenoscape", Germany, February 11-14, 2011.

2010

James P. Balhoff (2010) iEvoBio Conference, Portland, OR, "Phenex: Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity", June 29, 2010

Monte Westerfield (2010) Vertebrate Anatomy Workshop, Hinxton, UK, "Anatomy Representation in Phenoscape", June 25-29, 2010.

Richard.C.Edmunds (2010) Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Providence, RI, "Using Phenoscape to Uncover the Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Phenotypes" July 10, 2010.

Hilmar Lapp (2010) Bringing reason to phenotype diversity, character change, and common descent, Webex recording of NCBO Webinar, November 17, 2010.

Paula Mabee (2010) Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology meeting, Raleigh, NC, "Phenoscape: Integration with ontologies" October 16, 2010.

Paula Mabee and Wasila Dahdul (2010) Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Providence, RI, "New Tools for Study of Development and Evolution of the Fish Skeleton" July 11, 2010.

Paula Mabee (2010), Sanford Health USD Biomedical Research Symposium, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, "Linking phenotypes of species, mutants, and human diseases to genetics and evolution" May 14, 2010.

Paula Mabee (2010), Collections Web Workshop II: New research opportunities emerging from integrating data across different taxonomic colletions, NSF Collections Web RCN (http://www.collectionsweb.org), New Orleans, LA, "Phenoscape integration", March 26, 2010.

Paula Mabee (2010), Informatics tools for integrating morphological data, Encyclopedia of Life and Phenoscape (via NSF), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, March 19, 2010.

Paula Mabee (2010), Phenotype and Trait Ontology Workshop, PATO (NIH funded), Rome, Italy, "Phenoscape and use of the PATO ontology", February 27, 2010.

Paula Mabee (2010), Locating Biology: The Development and Application of an Environment Ontology, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany, "Phenoscape: species phenotypes, genes, development...and environment", February 22, 2010.

2009

Todd Vision (2009) Ontologies in Phenoscape: Morphology, Taxa and Evolution, Presentation at the iPlant Tree of Life Data Assembly Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Nov 22, 2009.

Paula Mabee (2009) Introduction to Phenoscape and relation to AmphibAnat. Presentation at the AmphibAnat Meeting, Kansas City, KS Nov. 6, 2009.

Peter Midford, Paula Mabee, Todd Vision, Hilmar Lapp, Jim Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Cartik Kothari, John Lundberg, Monte Westerfield (2009) Ontologies for large multi-species phenotype datasets. Poster at the 2009 International Conference on Biomedical Ontology in Buffalo, NY, July 25, 2009.

Hilmar Lapp, Jim Balhoff, Cartik Kothari, Todd Vision, Wasila Dahdul, Paula Mabee, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Monte Westerfield (2009) "Informatics obstacles for integrating evolutionary phenotype diversity with model organism data". Poster at the 2009 ISMB conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

Todd Vision, Jim Balhoff, Cartik Kothari, Hilmar Lapp, Wasila Dahdul, Paula Mabee, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Monte Westerfield (2009) "Phenoscape: Linking phenotypic biodiversity to model organism genetics using ontologies". Poster at the e-Biosphere09 conference in London, UK.

Mabee, P., J.P. Balhoff, W. Dahdul, C. Kothari, H. Lapp, J. Lundberg, P. Midford, T. Vision, M. Westerfield. Phenoscape: evolutionary morphology linked to genes using informatics. Poster at Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Portland, OR, 2009.

Hilmar Lapp, Todd J. Vision. 2009. A gentle introduction to ontologies for biology. 'Ontologies for Ichthyology and Herpetology' symposium. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Portland, OR. July 25, 2009.

Monte Westerfield. 2009. Linking animal models and human diseases. 'Ontologies for Ichthyology and Herpetology' symposium. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Portland, OR. July 25, 2009.

Paula Mabee, Jim Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Cartik Kothari, Hilmar Lapp, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Monte Westerfield (2009). 2009. Phenoscape: Using ontologies to link comparative morphology to genes. 'Ontologies for Ichthyology and Herpetology' symposium. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Portland, OR. July 25, 2009.

Wasila Dahdul. 2009. The Teleost Anatomy Ontology: computable evolutionary morphology for teleost fishes. Department of Biological Science seminar at California State University, Fullerton, CA. May 13, 2009.

Paula Mabee, Wasila Dahdul, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Hilmar Lapp, Jim Balhoff, Cartik Kothari, Monte Westerfield (2009) "PHENOSCAPE: Curation of evolutionary phenotypes using the MOD model". Poster at the 2009 Biocurator Conference in Berlin, Germany. April 18, 2009.

Wasila Dahdul, Paula Mabee, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Hilmar Lapp, Jim Balhoff, Cartik Kothari, Melissa Haendel, Monte Westerfield (2009) "Developing a Multi-species Anatomy Ontology for Teleost Fishes". Poster at the 2009 Biocurator Conference in Berlin, Germany. April 18, 2009

Jim Balhoff, Cartik Kothari, Hilmar Lapp, Todd Vision (2009) "Software and database resources for curation and management of evolutionary phenotypes". Presentation (by T. Vision) at the 2nd Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Boston, MA, January 5, 2009.

Wasila Dahdul (2009) "Challenges of developing multi-species anatomy ontologies". Presentation at the 2nd Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Boston, MA, January 5, 2009.

Paula Mabee (2009) "Phenoscape: Extending model organism ontologies for devo-evo studies of evolutionary phenotypes". Presentation at the 2nd Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Boston, MA, January 5, 2009.

2008

Paula Mabee (2008) “Phenoscape: Bridging systematics and genetics with ontologies”. Panel presentation at “Establishing Fish Collections and Other Biodiversity Research Resources in Africa Countries” as part of International Workshop Enhancing Freshwater Fish Biodiversity Research in Africa Grahamstown, South Africa, Nov. 18, 2008.

Paula Mabee, Jim Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Cartik Kothari, Hilmar Lapp, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Monte Westerfield (2008) “Phenoscape: Morphology linked to genes using ontologies” Poster presentation (by P. Mabee) at: International Workshop Enhancing Freshwater Fish Biodiversity Research in Africa Grahamstown, South Africa, Nov. 17, 2008.

Paula Mabee (2008). "Introduction to Phenoscape, annotation and ontologies". Presentation at AmphibAnat workshop St. Louis, MO, Nov. 7, 2008

Paula Mabee, Jim Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Hilmar Lapp, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Monte Westerfield (2008). Linking evolutionary morphology to genomics using ontologies. Poster (presented by Wasila Dahdul) at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, October 2008

Peter Midford (2008) Taxonomic ontologies: Bridging phylogenetic and taxonomic history. Presentation at the 2008 TDWG Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, October 2008.

Paula Mabee, Jim Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Hilmar Lapp, John Lundberg, Peter Midford, Todd Vision, Monte Westerfield (2008). Linking evolutionary morphology to genomics using ontologies. Poster at the Evolution 2008 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 2008.

Todd Vision, Jim Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Hilmar Lapp, John Lundberg, Paula Mabee, Peter Midford, Monte Westerfield (2008) How to enable computable phenotypes? Assembling the Tree of Life Principal Investigators Meeting, Hilton St. Charles, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

Paula Mabee. Keynote presentation at the NSF conference "Where to Next with the Tree of Life?" http://www.biology.uiowa.edu/ATOL/index.htm “Development of an Informatics System to bridge AToL and Evo-Devo”. April 4, 2008.

2007

Todd Vision and Hilmar Lapp (2008) Prospects for enabling phylogenetically informed comparative biology on the web. e-Science Institute PhyloInformatics Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, October 2007.

Paula Mabee, J.P. Balhoff, W. Dahdul, H. Lapp, J. Lundberg, P. Midford, T.J. Vision, M. Westerfield (2007) Linking Evolution to Genomics Using Phenotype Ontologies. Poster at the 2nd Int. BioCurator Meeting, San Jose, California, Oct 2007.