Project Plan

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1. Scalable workflow

Much of the schedule is based on the 2007 NSF grant, with amendments by the Dryad Consortium Management Board and subsequent grant commitments. For Dryad project developers and associates, a (private) detailed development plan is available.

NLP work to generate potential ontology terms and candidate EQs in Phenex

Primary personnel: Hong Cui, Jim, Todd, UNC postdoc, MS student Overall objective:

Target milestone: First quarter: October 1, 2011

Objective: Develop NLP to generate potential ontology terms and candidate EQ's in Phenex

  • Generate list of terms to be added to ontologies (Hong)
  • Evaluate accuracy of automated EQs on 50 character test set, refine testing set and methodology, begin development of Phenex ‘EQ suggestion’ interface requirements/specifications
  • Identify corpus of publications, extract character descriptions
  • Generate entities and qualities that can be identified, with frequency and ontology match

Action items:

  • Wasila to send Hong the PDFs containing characters from the 50 char list - done
  • Action item: Wasila to send Paul a curated pub
  • Action Item: Jim will send Hong full database report with character text and EQ assignments
  • Jim: to enumerate pros and cons for MX (web-based) and Phenex for first phone call, estimate development time
  • Hong: Hire MS student at AZ
  • Todd: Hire UNC postdoc

Target milestone: Second quarter: January 1, 2012

Target milestone: Third quarter: April 1, 2012

Target milestone: Fourth quarter:July 1, 2012

Term broker (collab with NCBO)

Target milestone: First quarter: October 1, 2011

Target milestone: Second quarter: January 1, 2012

Target milestone: Third quarter: April 1, 2012

Target milestone: Fourth quarter:July 1, 2012

2. Anatomy ontology coordination (Wasila to fill in)

3. Homology (Paula, Hilmar to fill in)

4. Phenoblast and OBD/OWL (Todd, Jim? to fill in)