Hi Claire,<br><br>thanks for the emails.<br>MaizeGDB can't make it, so it will be TAIR, SGN and Gramene together for the introductory session.<br>As mentioned before, we would hopefully follow up on a second session focusing on Gene Ontology and MetaCyc (we will probably introduce AraCyc and we could do the same for RiceCyc unless Pankaj wants to do it himself. As for you Lukas, I am not sure whether you want to talk about the Cyc you're putting together. It's still in beta, right? not been released to the general public? Overall we think we'll keep the MetaCyc part short and sweet).
<br>After discussion, I think we're not going to have a third session for TAIR. We would squeeze 20min of updates on our new genome release in the second session.<br><br>I have contacted the organizers of the ASPB meeting (I am sorting out the details for rooms etc. Do let me know if you're going to have some specific requirements for your presentation other than Powerpoint usuals, laser pointer...). We will need to submit an abstract for each session. Although TAIR will fully take care of session 2, it would be nice if you could send me a short description of what you want to talk about. I will draft an abstract merging all your comments. It would be great if you could send me this by tomorrow.
<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Christophe<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Claire Elise Hebbard</b> <<a href="mailto:cer17@cornell.edu">cer17@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi, Christophe,<br><br>Thanks for initiating this group effort. Yes, Gramene is planning to<br>attend, and we are interested in a presentation.<br><br>Pankaj Jaiswal will be the most likely person to be attending and<br>presenting. Ideally, we would also like a one hour slot.
<br><br>I will confirm this with Pankaj and ask him to work on submitting an<br>abstract. We would appreciate your working with the organizers to try to<br>group the DB presentations together, and for your presentation to go first
<br>since you will be presenting the GO and Metacyc.<br><br>You can contact Pankaj (<a href="mailto:pj37@cornell.edu">pj37@cornell.edu</a>) or myself directly concerning<br>anything else we should know for this coordination.
<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Claire Hebbard<br>Gramene Outreach<br><a href="mailto:cer17@cornell.edu">cer17@cornell.edu</a><br><br><br><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I am contacting you on behalf of TAIR.<br>> We are planning on going to the ASPB meeting in Chicago next July and
<br>> wondered whether you had any intentions on attending.<br>> This year, TAIR (Harmut Foerster, Tanya Berardini and myself) and SGN<br>> (Lukas<br>> Muller) are planning on a joint session that would introduce several plant
<br>> DBs and wondered whether you would be interested in sharing a slot.<br>> The idea would be to have a 2h slot to present our databases (we're<br>> planning<br>> on maybe four DBs, which would be roughly 30min presentations including
<br>> questions).<br>><br>> TAIR would be happy to run a full session on GO (what its purpose is and<br>> its<br>> applications) and probably MetaCyc.<br>> We thought it would make sense to have one DB covering these topics to
<br>> avoid<br>> having to repeat the same info everytime.<br>><br>> Each DB could thereafter have its own, more in-depth session. TAIR would<br>> like to plan on a one hour presentation but we could be happy to share a
<br>> 2h<br>> slot with another DB. The other two could share another (assuming that one<br>> hour is sufficient). In any case, it would probably help if we'd<br>> synchronize<br>> our efforts to avoid all having minisymposia at the same time and to
<br>> maximize exposure.<br>><br>> If you have not already completed yours, the deadline for submission of<br>> the<br>> minisymposia abstract is february 14th.<br>> Do let me know if this sounds interesting to you and I can start
<br>> contacting<br>> the ASPB organizers for book some slots and send some abstracts.<br>><br>> Best regards,<br>><br>> Christophe<br>> --<br>> Dr Christophe Tissier MetaCyc:
<br>> <a href="http://www.metacyc.org/">http://www.metacyc.org/</a><br>> MetaCyc/TAIR Curator AraCyc:<br>> <a href="http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/">http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/
</a><br>> Carnegie Institution of Washington tel +1 650 325 1521<br>> x267<br>> Stanford University fax +1 650 325<br>> 6857<br>> Stanford, CA94305<br>> USA
<br>><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr Christophe Tissier MetaCyc: <a href="http://www.metacyc.org/">http://www.metacyc.org/</a><br>MetaCyc/TAIR Curator AraCyc:
<a href="http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/">http://www.arabidopsis.org/tools/aracyc/</a><br>Carnegie Institution of Washington tel +1 650 325 1521 x267<br>Stanford University fax +1 650 325 6857
<br>Stanford, CA94305<br>USA