Ontology meeting 2016-02-18

Attendees:Paola, DavidOS, Harold, DavidH, Chris, Heiko, PaulT

Minutes:DavidH

Discuss strategy for ontology requests

Paola to report.

We need to have a better set of guidelines for dealing with ontology tickets. Perhaps we can generalize Jane's flow chart of when to request a termgenie term. One way or another, we need to figure out a strategy to handle requests based on the resources we have.

http://go.termgenie.org/help/index.html

 Strategies discussed:
 Improved flow chart
 Making a template for new tickets.  Tickets with insufficient detail will not be dealt with.
 Templated generation of branches of the ontology - filling in terms for classes we know must exist rather than waiting for requests.
   Good example of this is components for membranes.

Follow up on items from last week's call

Chris, could you please look into/comment on action items from these:

http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Ontology_meeting_2016-02-11#use_of_comments

 AI: DOS to add new xref curie, following example here: https://github.com/Planteome/go-site-xrefs-fork/commit/221127d876b52462724fb97b2d777092cbe1dc91
 xref name = go_ontology_tracker.
 This will expand into links to tickets on GitHub (or future tracker if that changes).

http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Ontology_meeting_2016-02-11#Upper_ontology_needed.3F

 Ticket here: https://github.com/geneontology/go-ontology/issues/12221

Ontology items on Trello board

David H and David OS, could you please update cards assigned to you: https://trello.com/b/IdtTLGEt/go-priorities

Done.

New MF terms

Harold and DavidH have begun to add the new terms for Peifen. We will paste them at the bottom of the obo file after review and then commit.