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Published December 20, 2018 | Version v1
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Phenotype Ontologies Traversing All The Organisms (POTATO) workshop aims to reconcile logical definitions across species

Creators

  • 1. European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK
  • 2. Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 3. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
  • 4. Sanford Imagenetics, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
  • 5. University of Oregon, Institute of Neuroscience
  • 6. The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington CT 06032, USA
  • 7. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
  • 8. California Institute of Technology
  • 9. Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
  • 10. Charité Centrum für Therapieforschung, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, 10117, Germany
  • 11. Bioversity International
  • 12. Marquette University, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • 13. Wormbase, www.wormbase.org
  • 14. Human Genetics, University of Cape Town, SA
  • 15. Linus Pauling institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, USA
  • 16. FlyBase, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, UK
  • 17. Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
  • 18. Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  • 19. Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97217

Description

Logical definitions, in particular those following the Entity-Quality approach, are increasingly used to drive automated classification of phenotypes and integrate phenotypes across species semantically. Over the years, the lack of consistent and widespread use of common standards resulted in conceptually equivalent or similar phenotypes with logically divergent definitions. Recently, pattern-based approaches such as Dead Simple Ontology Design Patterns (DOSDP) have emerged as a way to reconcile such divergent definitions on a large scale. To facilitate the widespread adoption of DOSDP-based phenotype ontology development and to organise the reconciliation process involving key model organism communities, we have established the Phenotype Ontologies Traversing All The Organisms (POTATO) Workshop Series. These workshops are part of the NIH-funded “Forums for Integrative Phenomics” conference award, which provide a venue for phenotype ontology developers and phenomics informaticians to align their goals and technical approaches. The first POTATO workshop, in August 2018, provided training in cutting-edge tools and techniques for developing and releasing ontologies using design patterns and automated imports. This workshop also featured collaborative exercises in reconciling divergent logical definitions drawn from major phenotype ontologies that resulted in a set of general recommendations for how to improve phenotype ontologies and their development as well as a set of reconciled definitions. As a result of the workshop, many of the attendees have joined a phenotype ontology reconciliation effort, aimed at developing and implementing common design patterns across a range of phenotype ontologies. We thus plan to hold additional POTATO workshops.

Notes

Funding: This workshop was supported by an NIH conference grant "Forums for Integrative phenomics" to Melissa Haendel and Peter Robinson: 1U13CA221044.

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Phenotype
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UPHENO_0001001