Invitation to a Meeting to discuss Ontologies for Phenotypes

[Brent Mishler]

Thanks Richard!

Cheers,

Brent

At 4:46am -0700 9/29/02, Bruskiewich, Richard wrote:
>Hi Brent & Sue,
>
>Midori Harris will be reporting on SOFG in my workshop.
>
>Cheers
>Richard
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brent Mishler [mailto:bmishler at socrates.Berkeley.EDU]
>Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:57 AM
>To: Sue Rhee
>Cc: Pankaj Jaiswal; Bruskiewich, Richard; lreiser at acoma.Stanford.EDU;
>tberardi at acoma.Stanford.EDU; Susan McCouch; Vincent Leszek; brie
>Subject: Re: Invitation to a Meeting to discuss Ontologies for
>Phenotypes
>
>
>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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Brent D. Mishler
      Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
      Director, University and Jepson Herbaria
      Associate Director, California Biodiversity Center
   Mailing address:
      UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
      UNIVERSITY AND JEPSON HERBARIA
      1001 VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BLDG # 2465
      BERKELEY, CA  94720-2465  USA
   Phone:  (510) 642-6810
   FAX:    (510) 643-5390
   E-mail: bmishler at socrates.berkeley.edu
   WWW:    http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/people/mishler.html
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