development poster

[J Clark]

> Sure, I can contribute a section for the poster on the neurogenesis 
> node. 

Great, thanks. :-)

> What did you have in mind?  With 3/4 topics on the poster, I 
> imagine a single figure?

How about you shoot for enough text and pictures to make it 
comprehensible and we can work from there. I think there's probably room 
for expansion if it wont fit all on one poster. :-)

Jen





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> J Clark wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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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