Invitation to a Meeting to discuss Ontologies for Phenotypes

[Brent Mishler]

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.

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.

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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