FW: Compositae vocabulary

[Vincent, Leszek]

Hi Kent,

Thanks for the copy of your "Compositae phenotypes" file you sent on
Fri. - the one you've also shared with Katica. Following Katica's
feedback to you earlier today, I will also work with Katica on
addressing your needs so that we can provide you with a
consistent/unified response. My contribution will probably be mostly in
the area of terminology, because of my taxonomic expertise in the family
Asteraceae/Compositae, to which you appealed in one of your several
earlier communications which was 'swallowed' by an IT gremlin. 

We'll be in touch.

Sincerely,
Leszek Vincent

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-po-dev at plantontology.org
[mailto:owner-po-dev at plantontology.org] On Behalf Of KENT BRADFORD
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:03 PM
To: katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU; po-dev at plantontology.org
Cc: Vincent, Leszek
Subject: RE: FW: Compositae vocabulary

Katica:

Thank you for your reply. I miss messages myself these days due to spam
filters. 

I have worked on our character lists today, and have developed a draft
of how we might enter our data under your PO terms. The attached
spreadsheet has a page with all of the phenotypic characters we have (or
expect to have) data for, and the second sheet is a rough effort by me
to slot those characters under your existing terms, or indicate where it
appears that new terms may be needed. Some terms can also be cross
listed under other terms, and I have not tried to do that as yet. Am I
on the right track with this? Thanks for your assistance.

Kent Bradford

-----Original Message-----
From: katica at acoma.stanford.edu [mailto:katica at acoma.stanford.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:08 PM
To: po-dev at plantontology.org; KENT BRADFORD
Subject: Re: FW: Compositae vocabulary

Dear Kent,

I apologize for inexcusable delay in responding to your messages to 
po at plantontology.org. All your emails got caught in our spam filter. We 
will certainly try to do our best to prevent this from happening again.

As Leszek already mentioned, it would help if you could send us the list

of the characteristics/characters that you have recorded. This would
help 
us understand the scope of the request. We would work together with you
on 
incorporating botanical terms specific for Compositae in the PSO. If an 
extensive changes need to be done to PO to accommodate all updates, it 
would probably take several rounds of dialogs, and may involve 
taxonomists-experts for the Compositae family.

A good way to start is to learn more about phenotypic data that you have

and to review few examples of phenotype description, and also a list of 
controlled vocabulary terms that you would like to see in the PO.

Best regards,

Katica Ilic, POC Project Coordinator


On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, KENT BRADFORD wrote:

> I am trying the email that was published in Jaiswal et al (2005) in an
> attempt to make contact regarding the questions below.
> Kent Bradford
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: KENT BRADFORD
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:10 PM
> To: 'po at plantontology.org'
> Subject: RE: Compositae vocabulary
>
> I am trying again to obtain a response from the plant ontology group.
> Kent Bradford
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: KENT BRADFORD
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:13 PM
> To: 'po at plantontology.org'
> Subject: RE: Compositae vocabulary
>
> I did not get any response to the message below. Is this address
listed
> on the Plant Ontology website viable?
> Kent Bradford
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: KENT BRADFORD
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:33 PM
> To: 'po at plantontology.org'
> Subject: Compositae vocabulary
>
> To Whom It May Concern:
> I am a Co-PI on the Compositae Genome Project that has been developing
> EST and mapping resources for the Compositae, primarily lettuce and
> sunflower but now expanding into 15 additional species
> (http://cgpdb.ucdavis.edu). As part of this project, we have also
> collected extensive phenotypic data on several hundred accessions in
the
> Compositae. We are in the process of developing a database to compile
> and store this data and make it accessible via our website. In
> describing our phenotypic data, we would like to be compatible with
your
> controlled vocabularies in choosing our terms. However, you note on
your
> website that these vocabularies are not yet available for the
> Compositae, and we have many types of data that I do not see in the
> current descriptions, (e.g., specific leaf shapes, rosettes, presence
of
> trichomes, inflorescence branching patterns, etc.). I would appreciate
> your advice on how we should proceed in a way that will remain
> consistent the goals of the plant ontology project to allow broad and
> consistent searching on controlled vocabularies. Is anyone working on
a
> list of terms for the Compositae that we could work from? I can send a
> list of the characteristics that we have recorded if it would help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kent Bradford
>
> Kent J. Bradford
> Professor
> Department of Plant Sciences
> Mail Stop 5
> One Shields Ave.
> University of California
> Davis, CA 95616-8780
> Phone: 1-530-752-6087
> Fax: 1-530-754-7222
> Email: kjbradford at ucdavis.edu
>
>
>
>

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