Invitation to a Meeting to discuss Ontologies for Phenotypes

[Sue Rhee]

Hi, Brent,

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Brent Mishler wrote:

> Hi Sue,
>
> Sorry I won't see you at PAG in San Diego.  Those are good ideas you
> have for meetings to connect with.  It would be great if there could
> be reports at PAG on SOFG and the TIGR workshop.  We don't have final
> plans yet for what is happening at PAG, but let's put those reports
> on the agenda for sure.
>
> You could also perhaps say something about Deep Gene and the
> interests of phylogenetic systematists at SOFG and the TIGR workshop.
> I think it would help those groups as well to consider the
> overarching role that history can play in classification.

Sure, will do!

> I also really like your idea of a meeting in the Bay Area in the
> spring, and will have Deep Gene funds to pitch into that.  March is a
> good time for back-easterners to get away to California anyway!  So
> please go ahead and look into that and let me know what would be the
> best plan.

Will do!

>
> All the best,
>
> Brent
>
>
> At 2:34pm -0700 9/26/02, Sue Rhee wrote:
> >Brent,
> >
> >That's great to hear. I am unfortunately not going to be attending the PAG
> >meeting as it overlaps with another meeting I'm comitted to.
> >
> >There are two meetings relating to gene/phenotype ontologies occuring in
> >the near future that I (and members from Gramene, IRRI, and MaizeDB) will
> >be attending. One is SOFG (Standards and Ontologies in Functional
> >Genomics) in Hinxton UK in November 17-21
> >(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray/General/Events/SOFG/SOFG.html) and the
> >other is a small workshop on phenotype ontologies organized by Michael
> >Ashburner and hosted at TIGR on Dec 6 - 8, 2002 (no URL, but if you are
> >interested, I could forward you the invitation message from Ashburner).
> >
> >I wonder if somone who's attending these meetings (Pankaj or Leszek or
> >Tanya) could give an update at the PAG Deep Green or Ontologies workshop
> >
> >and then have a short meeting in the bay area between POC and Deep Green
> >to set out some specific working plan and/or action items? I would be
> >happy to organize such a meeting at Carnegie if people are interested. Say
> >sometime in March or April...
> >
> >Sue
>
> --
>
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> Brent D. Mishler
>       Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
>       Director, University and Jepson Herbaria
>       Associate Director, California Biodiversity Center
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