Soybean ontology (PR#24)

[Rex Nelson]

Katica:

I talked with Dr. Shoemaker and we are interested in collaborating 
with the POC on soybean ontologies.  Is there a time I could place a 
call to you to discuss the collaboration and how this will work?  It 
will be too cumbersome to do it by Email.

Please drop me a note on a time that would be convenient for you to 
take the call.  Please indicate if the time is PDT or not. I am 
assuming the phone number is: (650) 325-1521 ext. 253.

Rex


>Hi Rex,
>
>Thanks again for your interest in plant ontologies. It's great that you have
>plans to create a comprehensive ontology for soybean and other 
>legumes that will
>be freely available to the public. I am sure that both, 
>developmental stages and
>anatomy/morphology ontologies for soybean will be used by a large number of
>researchers.
>
>Regarding  a help with DAG-edit, I agree with you, it's not very 
>intuitive tool,
>but after solving few initial problems, it's relatively easy to edit ontology
>using this tool. Of course, I'll be happy to help you with tips and 
>suggestions
>(I had generous help from my colleagues at TAIR). Please feel free 
>to contact me
>any time. To report bugs that you may sometimes discover, especially with new
>released versions of Dag-edit, please contact John Day-Richter
>(john.richter at aya.yale.edu).
>
>I look forward to hearing from you and Dr. Randy Schoemaker about possibility
>for collaboration and joining our efforts at POC.

-- 
Rex Nelson Ph. D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
nelsonrt at iastate.edu