Needs Analysis Workshop/Breakout group 1

Break-out Group 1: Developmental genetics of morphology

Examples for driving research questions:

• Which genes are known to be expressed in the development of a particular morphological structure?
• Is there a model organism mutant that has a phenotype similar to a human disease?

Characters

GW - describe natural units

- not necessarily arbitrary

- can phenotype be decomposed into natural mechanistic units

CK - could ontology hold you back from describing some things

GW - can lead to confusion

EJ - this database can be a way of discovering these units

GW - would database be like GenBank - I could describe a fish and deposit my phenotypes