Talk:EvoIO Working Group Proposal

Notes from teleconferences

30 November 2010

• invited: Arlin, Rutger, Hilmar, Paula Mabee, Peter Midford

topic: phenoscape interop phenotype annotations working group collaboration

what are the interop targets? what are the platforms? who are the players? why NESCent?

pre-discussion

• apply to RCN
• can commit to send someone to hackathon

Phenoscape project

• anatomy and phenotypic trait ontology
• character-state vs. EQ
• half of time spent developing ontologies
• importing ZFIN data (uses EQ)
• also mouse group does this
• phenoblast

Interop challenges

• integrative queries: all the fish that have lost eyes; what are the locations of blind animals;
• specimen vouchers
• associate phenotypes with images (cf. Greg Riccardi); want to pull in images from morphbank or paleodb or morphster

• mesquite module for EQ annotation

Post-discussion

• 18 K for wg meeting

Arlin, Mark Westneat

• yes to wg membership
• toolset with interoperable parts
• v graphical interface to aggregate and explore data
  • what's missing is the way for a naive end-user to take advantage of that
  • stakeholders meeting of interop technologists with end-users and interface designers to design the viz environment for trees, then work backwards to the strategy to get there