Phenotype Ontology Coordination Workshop

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Phenotype Ontology Coordination Workshop

A workshop hosted by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)


Location and Date

Venue: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) (directions, also see information for visitors)

Date: Arpil 27-28, 2009

Organizers: Paula Mabee, Monte Westerfield, Todd Vision

Introduction

The goal of this workshop is to discuss plans for an RCN (Research Coordination Network) or INTEROP (Community-based Data Interoperability Networks) application to NSF that we hope to submit later this year. The grant would provide funds for 5 years worth of meetings and workshops (and in the case of the INTEROP program, implementation to a limited extent) to identify problems and develop methods and plans to describe phenotypes in a much broader range of species.

Specific goals are to be determined by the workshop participants. An initial list includes establishing and maintaining communication among evolutionary biologists and model organism communities developing ontologies, coordinating efforts among the broader ontology community so that these ontologies are interoperable, and methods to align and reason across multi-species ontologies for phenotype and taxonomy. The workshop includes interested members from both the model organism and evolutionary biology communities.

Agenda

Logistics

  • For long-distance participants, the hotel is the Millennium Hotel (2800 Campus Walk Ave, Durham, NC 27705; tel. (919) 383-8575)
  • For dining & entertainment, NESCent is right across from Ninth Street
  • For the venue, NESCent is in the historic Erwin Mills building (directions)

Reading

  • We have started to use the tag "phenoscape" on Connotea. Everyone is welcome to suggest references by using this tag.
  • Relevant manuscripts by members of the project team:
  1. Mabee PM, Ashburner M, Cronk Q, Gkoutos GV, Haendel M, Segerdell E, Mungall C, and Westerfield M. Phenotype ontologies: the bridge between genomics and evolution. Trends Ecol Evol 2007 Jul; 22(7) 345-50. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.03.013
  2. Mabee PM, Arratia G, Coburn M, Haendel M, Hilton EJ, Lundberg JG, Mayden RL, Rios N, and Westerfield M. Connecting evolutionary morphology to genomics using ontologies: a case study from Cypriniformes including zebrafish. J Exp Zoolog B Mol Dev Evol 2007 Jun 28. doi:10.1002/jez.b.21181
  3. 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.

Participants

Members of the project team are in bold font.

Name Institution
Wasila Dahdul Department of Ichthyology, Academy of Natural Sciences
Hilmar Lapp NESCent
John Lundberg Department of Ichthyology, Academy of Natural Sciences
Paula Mabee University of South Dakota
Peter Midford Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
Todd Vision NESCent, and Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Monte Westerfield Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon