development poster

[Doug Howe]

Sure, I can contribute a section for the poster on the neurogenesis 
node.  What did you have in mind?  With 3/4 topics on the poster, I 
imagine a single figure?

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Doug Howe, Ph.D.
ZFIN Scientific Curator
Zebrafish Information Network
5291 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5291

Phone: (541) 346-5733
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J Clark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David and I have volunteered the development interest group to 
> contribute a poster for the GO Consortium meeting. :-)
>
> I have submitted an abstract:
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> The development interest group has been working intensively for 
> several years to improve the development node. Current projects 
> include improvements to the neurogenesis section and cleanup of all 
> the standard terms under 'development' to ensure correspondance to the 
> standard DAG structure and standard definitions. We have been 
> considering how best to represent the top concept of development, 
> deciding whether this should mean 'development of a thing' or 
> 'developmental process' and what the long term effects of this will 
> be. An investigation has been made into whether the presence of is_a 
> diamonds in the ontologies causes problems, and what should be done 
> about this. The cell differentiation section of the ontology is also 
> being aligned with the cell type ontology. The group has also been 
> looking forward at how the terms can best be used in future, including 
> the possible use of cross products. This poster will give a brief 
> intorduction to some of the work that has been done, and that may be 
> happening in the future.
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>
> Also a possible division of labour in poster construction:
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> Doug: Improvements to the neurogenesis section (Just wrote to Doug to 
> ask if he's keen to do this.)
>
> Jen: cleanup of all the standard terms under 'development' to ensure 
> correspondance to the standard DAG structure and standard definitions.
>
> Jen: 'development of a thing' v. 'developmental process' (I have been 
> discussing this with Jane as she is making the complete is_a path in 
> component, and we have got some interesting thoughts. She's keen that 
> we should have both 'developmental process' and 'development of a 
> thing' so we can have is_a and part_of paths. I'd be interested to try 
> to explain that possible approach in the poster.
>
> David: is_a diamonds
>
> Jen: cell differentiation section of the ontology is also being 
> aligned with the cell type ontology. (I think maybe my PAG slides 
> could be used for this)
>
> David: cross products.
>
> Does anybody else want to contribute other sections for the poster, or 
> help with the sections we have?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen
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